sur les murailles blanches, upon the whiie vàlk

Versailles, like Paris and many other French cities, présents this strikingly white appearance from being largely built of the limestone which underlies this part of France.

30. cette ville de silence, that sUent eity. Versailles might

well be called a silent city after the return to Paris of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, who had occupied Versailles during the troublons years (1876-79) while the présent Bepublic was becoming established upon secure foundations.

33. campo-santo. The name campo-santo, * sacred field/ is given to cemeteries in Italy. The most ancient and roost distinguished is the campo-santo of Pisa, which dates from the 13th oentury.

41. — 1. un paquet vert de grlycine troué de grrappes violettes, a green cluster *of glyeine wUh bunches of violet fiowers. Note the picturesque efiTect of the word troaê, * pierced,' i, e. the blue clusters appearing as opcTtings through the surroiindîng maas of verdure. As frequently, this cannot be imitated by a literal translation in English.

4. des cris d'enfants, cries of ehildren. Note that des cris is really without grammatical construction. ITie grammarians would say that it is the subject or predicate of a verb understood ; but its force, consists in being left mthoiU construction, The words of a récent critîc are very true : ** No language is so indépendant of its grammar as the French.''

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él* — 8. féru de recherches bizfirres, very fond of pecidiar reaearche»,

12. petite, mais d'une élégrance déchue et embourgreoisée, smallj with an élégance now declining and befiUing tke lower middle cUvs»,

16. le seul bonjour accueillant, the sole wdeome réception, 20. Mazas, prison of Paris for solitary confinement, opened

in 1850. ^ La prison Mazas est le pins curieux et le plus complet monument d'un système que la science a condamné chez nous, mais qui est encore aujourd-hui pratiqué chez les nations voisines." — Larousse, 42. — 2. rayonnée de haut en bas, MLvedfrom top to bottom, 7. ^sés d'encre et frénétiques de littérature, intoxioated with ink and/rantic about literaivre.

10. cornet acoustique, speaking-trumpet (hère), also ear^ trumpet.

15. la mise en œuvre, rapportée par lui, the axxomplished work broughiback by him,

17. lors de, at the lime of; the usual meaning of lors de, 20. fondus dans un texte, expressed in language,