l'hôtel Silvestre. Israël Silvestre, a distinguished en

graver of Paris, died in 1691. He design ed and engraved for Louis XIV., and has left more than a thousand of his engravings.

97. — 1. Preces piSB, the prayer-book of Queen Claude, the wife of Francis L, whose many virtues caused her to be beloved by the people, and gave her the name of La Bonne Reine. She was the daughter of Louis XII. and Anne de Bretagne, and had seven children by Francis, and died in 1524, at the âge of 25.

17. Jacques Bouillard, a noted French designer and engraver, who died in Paris in 1806. Dans hère is an archaic form meaning maître. It is from dominus; compare the féminine dame (domina) ; as in Italian maestro has superseded donno (dominus), so maître has superseded dans.

24. qui descendent de l'omnibus, alighting from the omnh bus % Compare î^ote 90-4.

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97.— 27. Virginie. "Paul et Virginie" (Paris, 1788) a romance, the chef-d'œuvre of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, has been translated into nearly ail languages. " Non seulement le chef-d'œuvre de Fauteur, mais encore un des chefsd'œuvre de notre langue." — Larousse.

98. — 5. La voyez-vous qui file ? do you see her running along t Rel. clause for participle in English.

7. l'allure svelte et flère, the proud and graeefvl movement. *

14. Il s'en faut, etc., Mlle. Préfère, breaihless and indignant, is

still a story below the head of the stairs. Lit., ' there is wanting a story ' etc. This is one of the many passages which cannot be literally rendered in English. But such sentences should be carefully analyzed. It is mère folly to tell an English student to absorb the idea in French, without English translation.