à l'heure qu'il est, at the présent moment

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76.-22. d'y voir comme dans une glace, to see there as in a mirror. Note that d! y voir is in apposition with distraction, and is représentée! by the impersonal ce in ce sera. Also note that the de in such cases is often changed to que de.

31. Ghrysale, the bon bourgeois of Molière's Les Femmes savantes. See Act II., se VII. :

" Vos livres éternels ne me contentent pas ; Et, hors un gros Plutarque à mettre mes rabats, Vous devriez brûler tout ce meuble inutile, Et laisser la science aux docteurs de la ville."

35. Acta Sanctorum, ^icte o/ the Saints. An immense collection (62 volumes) of lives of the saints of the Catholic Church. The saints are arranged in the order of the calendar, according to the day of their death. The idea of the work, which has become famous, was conceived by Rosweyd, a Jesuit of Antwerp, in 1607. In 1837 the Belgian government supplied funds for continuing the publication. The long succession of editors who hâve had charge of the work since its beginning are often called the Bollandists, from Bolland, the first editor.