Suffren, a great French admirai and sea-fighter. He died

4. Plutarque, born about 46 a. d., wrote the lives of the illustrious men of Greece and Rome, the most famous and most widely read of ail biographies.

Page 67. — 1. Voltaire (1694-1778), one of the most brilliant and influential of modem writers. He represents a rationalistic re-

action, on the whole healthful though neither ^profound nor révèrent, against religious traditions and political abuses. He was a man of universal curiosity and the most varied literary achievement: he wrote tragédies, Oreste being one of a long list of which Zaïre is the best ; comédies ; an epic, the Henriade, cold and unpoetical; a mock-epic, La Pucelle, a scurrilous treatment of Joan of Arc; various historiés: Charles XII, Louis XIV, and his famous Essai (cf. page 91, note 4); much controversial and philosophical literature, including some brilliant and witty taies ; and finally a volurninous correspondence, the most living portion of his work. He was the literary king of his âge, listened to and honored by ail Europe. After his sojourn at the court of Frédéric the Great, he spent his old âge on his lordly estate at Ferney (near the Swiss frontier). To this period belongs his generous pleading for the rehabilitation of Jean Calas and of other victims of religious fanaticism. See also pp. 161 ff.

2. Anacréon, a Greek lyric poet, who sang in light and gracefu] verse of the pleasures of love and wine. He lived six centuries before the Christian era.

3. Lord Chesterfield (1 694-1 773), an English earl who dabbled in politics and literature, a typical i8th century man of the world. His polite but not over-moral philosophy of life is developed in his not undeservedly popular " Letters to his Son."

Page 68. — 1. Longchamps (or Longchamp) a very worldly and fashionable abbey near Paris. In the song-service held at L. in Holy Week, opera-singers usually took part, and it became a great social function where the worldling and the sinner were chiefly and even scandalously in évidence. It is now the site of a race-course. On July I4th the army passes in review before the Président at L.