mal entendu, badly planned

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1. 5. poîir peu que la chose.. \{ the matter had been ever so little...

1. 7. vous auraient donné gain de cause, would hâve decided in your favour.

1. 9. 7?iais d'' en faire. " Le caractère de courtisan," says M. Sainte- Beuve, "n'est point très-noble ni très-relevé ; mais le duc d'Antin en a été en son temps un type si accompli, si merveilleux et si fin, qu'il mérite de rester à son rang dans une galerie morale comme représentant à nos yeux l'espèce." {Causeries, vol. V.)

\. 10. tout entier. **0h! Mesdames," s'ecrîa la Duchesse de Bourgogne qui était présente, "si le Roi avait demandé nos têtes, M. d'Antin les aurait fait tomber de même." (Quoted by Sainte-Beuve, ubi supra.)

1. 26. la place Vendôme.. .la place des Victoires ^ in Paris. The former vv^as built on the spot previously occupied by the Hôtel de Vendôme erected by Henry IV for his son, tlie latter ow^es its name to the statue hère mentioned. The statue which now adorns the Place des Victoires is the vi^ork of Boris, and was inaugurated in 1822.

1. 38. jojiction des mers., the canal joining the Atlantic and the Mediterranean : see below, p. 73, 1. 9.

1. 39. paix de A'ifjiègiie, the peace of Nimv^egen was made in 1678, vvhen Louis was at the height of his power.

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1. 7. un électeur, the Great Elector, Frederick William, who "repelled" the Swedes at the Battle of Fehrbellin in 1675. He conquered Pomerania from them, but had to restore it in 1678: see above, vol. I. pp. 147, 148. , , . , .

1. 12. a été traitée d'' idolâtrie, has been described as an act of idolatry.

1. 19. qui Pa érigée. Every one knows that the statue alluded to by Voltaire was pulled down at the Révolution, and that its place is now occupied by a column inaugurated in 1810, and having on its summit the statue of Napoléon I.