à la longue, eventually

1. 15. d'ailleurs, otherwise. The "horrors" hère alluded to are the famous poisoning cases in which were implicated the Marchioness de Brinvilliers and a soothsayer known by the name of La Voisin.

1. 16. sur les crimes éclatants, on account of the notorious crimes.

1. 17. la réforme de la Trappe. The monastery of La Trappe was reformed in 1662 by the abbé de Raixé.

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1. I. Vart de vivre, the art of living (in a polite and comfortable manner).

1. 13. Si quelques natif s . Notice that the word /za/ey corresponds whilst speaking of civilised countries to natîtrel in connection witli barbarous lands. Thus we say tm natif d'Angleterre, and un naturel de la Patagonie.