de son vivant, during his lifetime

40. —18. c'est tenter Dieu que de chercher le péril, it is tempting God to seek danger. Note the redundant que, more clearly identifying the subject of est ; almost = ' namely.'

21. dans mon for intérieur, in my inner self. This expression, together with for extérieur, cornes from the Catholic Church. Absolution in foro interno is the remission of " mortal and venial sins." For from Latin forum.

23. alors même que, even when, even at the time that. 41.— 6. qui attendent chez le marchand leur funèbre

clientèle, which await at the shops their mourning piirchasers. The reader will note this vivid description of the approach to either of the great cemeteries of Paris.

20. je n'avais jamais vu de dame s'agenouiller, / had never seen any lady kneel. Note the use of de after the négative word jamais, and see Less. 36, iv.

Page. Une.

42. — 1. sans nous rien dire, unthout saying anything to each other. Note the reflective pronoun used reciprocally. If there were any ambigu ity, Pun à P autre would hâve been added.

19. quels sentiments m'a rappelés celle tombe, whai feelings thaï tomb has recalled to my mind. Note ,the plural form of rappelés, to agrée with the object sentiments, which précèdes it. See Less. 51, xiii. 2. 43. — 7. en cheminant, as we go, on the way.

12. l'avenue de l'Observatoire. This is a real avenue, running south from the front of the Luxembourg palace to the Oboervatory, of which the renowned astronomer Arago was for many yeare the director. See Note 34-23.

23. c'est qu'en effet, it is because, in/act. Note the fréquent

use of c'est que for éest parce que,

29. tout enfant que j'étais, chUd as I was. Note that tout, 'ail/ although hère untranslatable in English, is not without its force.

44. — 2. Mably. Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, born at Grenoble in 1709, and died in Paris in 1785. He was an historian and a philosopher, published much on historical suhjects, and advocated a complète change in the order of Society and the abolition of the right of property. He was one of the founders of Modem Soeialism.

2. Raynal. Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal, born in 1713, died in Paris in 1796. Another Socialist, historian and philosopher. His great work, in which he was aided by Diderot, is entitled : Histoire philosophique et politique des ÊtablissemenU et du Commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. It was first published anonymously. 15. M. Decrès, a distinguished admirai under Napoléon I., who retired to private life at the the time of the second Restoration.