peu, how distinguished from un pat-? E.B. Ace

1. 31. le camp de Boulogne, formed with a view to the invasion of England. It is commemorated by a column surmounted by a statue of Napoleon, la Colonne de la Grande Armée.

1. 32. bateaux plats. The greater part of Napoleon's flotilla was composed of flat-bottomed boats, very convenient for landing on an enemy's coast, but by no means seaworthy. Notice en mer but dans la mer. E.B. 159.

1. 35. de Fontainebleau. We say 'at F.' French makes a sort of adjective of it. In French, as in Latin, there is considerable reluctance to connect nouns by prepositions other than de, which practically represents the genitive case, E.B. 16S a.

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1. 3. était mordu au cœur. We should alter the metaphor, 'had received a fatal blow.' For Séidisme see note p. 12, 1. 25.

1. 9. du magique ascendant, ascendant is the noun, p. 14, 1. 32. For the position of magique see E.B. 34 (2).

1. 14. m 'étourdissant sur, referring to enivrement, 'making me forget.' See example quoted in note to p. 17, 1. 16.

L 18. homérique, i.e. like that of a great epic poem.

bon à prendre des écoliers, 'suited to fascinate schoolboys.' Ecolier is a scholar only in the above sense ; a scholar, meaning a learned man. is un érudit, un savant.