en hom/ne = comme îin homme

1. 17. François I^*". Francis I gave Raphaël several commissions for pictures, but Raphaël does not appear to hâve gone to France, as did Andréa del Sarto, Leonardo da Vinci, and other artists of the day.

1. 24. qui soient au monde. Note the use of the subjunctive, because the qualification of the relative clause is only represented as possible.

1. 32. que Boileau osa vouloir rendre ridicule. Perrault, mixed up in the famous quarrel about the comparative merits of ancient and modem authors, took the part of the latter, and thus drew upon himself Boileau's anger, who attacked him in several epigrams. The foUowing may be quoted as a spécimen :

" Oui, j'ai dit dans mes vers qu'un célèbre assassin, Laissant de Galien la science infertile, D'ignorant médecin devint maçon habile ; Mais de parler de vous je n'eus jaiTiais dessein,

Perrault, ma muse est trop correcte; Vous êtes, je l'avoue, ignorant médecin.

Mais non pas habile architecte."