ma rhétorique, my course in the Lycée, Lit, ' my rhe

toric,' the name given to the highest class in the secondary institution in the University, i. e., the concluding course in the Lycée. When the name was originally given, in the time of the Jesuits, the study of this course was rhetoric only, in its varions applications. In modem times, the name has remained, but the course is much more wîdely eztended, including ancient and modem langiiages, history, and several departments of modem science.