se trouver mal, tofaint

3. Mme de Genlis, an authoress and court-lady, who was governess to the future king Louis-Philippe (reigned 1830-48), in which function she displayed far more originality than in her hundred médiocre volumes.

4. veulent nourrir, wish to nurse their children themselves — a reform due not a little to the preaching of Rousseau, who (in his Emile) eloquently insisted on its practice in every family — except his own. Cf. page 15, note 1.

Pagre 82. — i. poudre, powder (for the hair) ; so vast a quantity was used that, in the days of Louis XIV, it cost 24 million francs per annum.

2. Franklin, as American ambassador at Paris during our Révolution, was an immensely popular figure. He was fêted by the nobility, entertained by the Academy, lauded by Voltaire whom he asked to bestow his blessing on his grandson, and portrayed by the hand of Greuze, cf. page 80, note 1.

3. jardins anglais, English gardening aims at retaining the irregularity of nature, which classical French gardening insisted on correcting and conventionalizing with an omniprésent art that concealed nature.