abbés et prieurs commendataires, cf. page 14, note

3. Narbonne, a city of S. France on the Mediterranean, some sixty miles from the Spanish border.

Page 21. — 1. se laisseront pousser, will allow themselves to be urged on, or incited; the infinitive dépendent on another verb or a préposition is often passive in value.

Page 22. — 1. le bon villageois, for a fuller statement of this wantonly optimistic conception of human nature, so popular in the eighteenth century, see pp. 132^.

Page 23. — 1. émigrés, the French nobles very generally sought refuge in foreign countries during the révolution; their property was confiscated.

2. le plus blessante, le plus is invariable when the adjective indicates the superlative degree of an object compared with itself. In English there is then no article.

Page 24. — 1. Rohan, prince, ambassador, cardinal, bishop of Strasbourg,* grand-almoner of Louis XVI, in his corruption, debauchery, and magnificence, one of the most typical figures of the old régime. For his scandalous connection with the affair of the Diamond Necklace, and for his strange belief in the picturesque impostor Cagliostro, see the essays of Carlyle.

2. Dillon, the son of an English nobleman in the French service, was under Louis XV and XVI archbishop of Xarbonne, (page 20, note 3).

3. capitainerie," hunting-reserves belonging to the king or the nobility. They comprised millions of acres (some 4,000 sq. miles).