Trianon, cf. page 75, note

5. les harmonies de la Nature, this is the title of a now neglected posthumous work of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, the author of Paul and Virginia (1787). Not anticipating Darwin, he interpreted ail the favorable éléments of natural environment as wise pre-arrangements of Providence, suggesting, for example, that it makes foam white against black rocks to warn away the navigator.

Page 83. — 1. Sèvres, a town just out of Paris, noted for its exquisitely beautiful créations in porcelain ware.

Page 84. — 1. Fontenoy, in Belgium, scène of the defeat of the English and their allies by the French (1745) under Marshal Saxe.

Pagre 85. — 1. Varennes, a town east-northeast of Paris and not very far from the frontier. Hère Louis XVI and his family were stopped in their attempt to escape from France (1791).