Fauriel. Claude Fauriel, a learned historian and critic

a member of the Académie des InsciHptions, who died in Paris in 1844. He first attracted public notice by his volume entitled Les Chants popularies de la Grèce moderne. His zealous labors did much to establish

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in France the Btudy of comparative philology. He furnished much interesting matter on the literary history of France, and gave active co-operation in editing several reviews, especially the Bévue des Deux Mondes. 138» — 18. Thierry. Augustin Thierry, a celebrated French historian, was born in 1795 and died in 1856. He occupied himself much with Middle Age history. He did much to develop the Philosophy of History, and one of his most important later works is, Dix Années d'Études historiques. In the préface to this work he says: "There is something in the world worth more than material power, more than fortune, more than health itself ; it is dévotion to science." 189. — 2. à point à cet examen, just in timefor this examinalion. 6. dont le défaut n'est pas de dissimuler, whose defect is not dissimulai ion. Lit , * that of dissembling.' Note that the infinitive thus used as a predicate, like a genitive after the main subject repeated (i. e., hère 'the defect of '), requires the préposition de.

16. trouve que sa position est critique, perceives that his position is critieaL Trouver frequently carries the idea of personal opinion y whether correct or not.