Petit Savoyard. Our author seems to refer to une

chanson patoise, entitled Les Deux petits Savoyards, which. has been presented in an opéra of Dalayrac, words by Marsollier (1789), and is very popular in France. 19. Duperrier. This name is usually written du Perriei' or du Pêrier. Thèse stanzas to François du Périer, on the death of his daughter, were written by his friend,

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François de Malherbe, who was a celebrated French poet, born in 1555 and died in Paris in 1628. Malherbe was famous as a critic, and did more than any one of his time to perfect the poetry of the French language. Thèse harmonious stanzas présent an admirable illustration of the regular récurrence of the fixed, and the harmonious arrangement of the movable, accents. This poem is the best known and oftenest quoted of ail that the poet wrote. It was first published in 1607. (See Lalanne's Œuvres de Malherbe, L, 39.) 99.— -32. Mais pourquoi Malherbe traite-t-il d'injurieux ami ce pauvre Monsieur du Périer?

but why does Malherbe treat as an insuUing friend this poor M. du Périer t Her error consists in not seeing that Malherbe speaks of himself as the injurieux ami if he attempted to console his friend for his irréparable loss. 100.— 16. la créature quelconque, the créature of some sort or other.

25. Vatel, the celebrated steward of the great Condé ; died by suicide in 1671. The pen of Mme. de Se vigne has done much, by describing his successes, to render his name immortal.