Mme d' Épinay, a friend and patroness of Rousseau, who

however, states that he wrote the Emile at the instance of Mme de Chenonceaux.

5. invocation aux Muses, Montesquieu was persuaded to omit it. It is usually appended as a fragment in his complète works.

Page 155. — 1. parade de style, every new member of the Academy makes a Discours de réception, usually a eulogy of his predecessor.

2. Kant (1 724-1804), the most influential of modem philosopher. His style is his least recommendation. "I would read you more," said a friend, " if I had more fingers — to locate the various parenthèses and involutions of each sentence."

3. élocution, the part of rhetoric which deals with the choice and arrangement of words ; oratorical style.

Page 156. — 1. que je reprenne les choses d'un peu haut, that I go a long way back in this discussion, i.e. go back to gênerai principles or to anterior truths.

2. Heures, book of prayers to be recited at various canonical hours, as matins, vespers, etc.

3. de la prose, the allusion is to Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who had talked prose for forty years without knowing it. Act II, se. 6.

Page 157. — 1. l'Esprit des lois, cf. page 93, note 3.

Page 158. — r. Nouvelle Héloïse, cf. page 15, note 1.

2. sel gaulois, wit of which décorum is the least significant élément.

• 3. fabliaux (or fableaux), taies in verse. The fabliaux belong to mediaeval French literature. They are written in light and amusing verse, and are rather licentious in tone.

Page 159. — 1. Montesquieu, cf. page 93, note 3.

Page 160. — 1. grands et petits vers, serious and light verse. The Alexandrine, or grand vers, belongs to the more ambitious kind of subjects ; the petit vers, or short and lighter meter, was affected in treating matters of a less serious nature.

Page 161. — 1. Voltaire, cf. page 67, note 1.

Page 162. — 1. la reine, to agrée with créature (féminine). Le roi would be more normal usage.