Prologue

Page 64. 1. 7. ce grand vaisseau : to those on the Continent this view of England is familiar ; cf. Michelet speaking of Holland, after the Révolution of 1688, as *henceforth apinnace in the wake of the ship " Great Britain " ' {Hist. de France, vol. xvi).

de houille. By this addition Barbier at once suggests the modem and rather dark aspects he was especially struck by.

I. 14. La flottille des nations. After Waterloo, England was * the flagship ' in Europe. Les mers nouvelles : the new political and social vistas.

1. 1 7. Si le pauvre Lazare : * Lazare ' is more poetical than

* John Bull *, and the very name implies the tenacious hope of a change of condition, of a betterment in the future, of a social résurrection.