jusqu'à l'effacement, sp as tobe almost invisible

26. cette bêtise particulière aux gens d'esprit, that absurdity peculiar to learned men. Note the covert sarcasm of this and the remaining lines of the paragraph, and indeed throughout the whole of this conversation between the students, Gélis and Boulmier. For the sensé hère given to bêtise t compare 30-29.

37«— 1. tu lis du Michelet, toi? you read Michelet, do yout The article is used before certain proper names, and especially before the names of noted musicians or artiste. It is sometimes used, as hère, to dénote contempt. 2. j'aime les romans, I Uke fiction.

8. Maillard. Stanislas-Marie Maillard, a distinguished leader

at the time of the French Kevolution, one of his first public acts being the heading of the party taking the Bastille. The most contradictory judgmente hâve been passed by historians as to his share of responsibility for actions with which his name bas been connected.