Monsieur, cf. page 29, note

Page 78. — 1. maître à danser, cf. page 66, note 1.

Page 80. — 1. l'Accordée de village, the Betrothed Villagegirl, the Broken Pitcher, the Return from the Ntirse, are masterpieces of the painter Greuze (172 5-1 805), who reflected the ten-

dency of the âge toward Rousseauism. He was fond of bourgeois subjects, which he treated with much grâce and prettiness.

2. Mercure (de France), a monthly periodical, both literary and contemporary in its interests, founded in 1672, as the Mercure Galant.

Pagre 81. — 1. Père de Famille, an indiffèrent play by Diderot (page 112, note 1).