Sans se gêner, "quite freely," "openly

28. relancer has corne to signify *'to hunt up somebody who would rather be left alone, in a place 'where he fancied himself safe."

160,— 10. travaille . . . heures, "works only eight hours." **Eight hours* work and full pay" is an important article in Courcier's creed,

161. — 1. Certainement qne. If we suppose that the speaker had in mînd the sentence il est certain que the construction is logical enough.

162.— 4. se prélassaient. Se prélasser means literaHj to walls. Ytith the solemnity of a prelate {prélat), Montaigne uses prélater, but this form has become obsolète.

29. Camille Desmoulins was the man who on the 12th of July, in the Palais-Royal, gave the signal of the revolutionary explosion, by haranguing the people and distributing his famous green cockades. He was successively the friend of Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton. When his journal. Le Vieux Cordelier, became the organ of the Indulgents^ who tried to moderate the activity of the Revolutionary government, he was accused of conspiracy against the Republic, was arrested, and afterwards exe. cuted.

1G3. — 5. calotte, a small black cap covering only the top of the head, and worn by priests. Thus la calotte has become a scorn* fui name for the Catholic clergy in gênerai.

16. de qualifier son propre rôle, ' ' f rom defining the part played byhimself."

22. Madeleine, one of the fashlonable Catliollc churches of Paris, buîlt in the form of a Greek temple.

26. droits d'acoroissement, tLe increase in value of certain kinds of property, e.g. land. The alluvial soil deposited by a river belongs to the owner of the land to which it is added par droit d'aecroissement

164.— 1. Vous démarques. The word is used of the unmarking of linen. * * Tou use the words and phrases of the ancients after taking off the marks, to make them pass for new and yours."

165.— 25. à se voir reeonnaître la qualité, ''when he saw recognized in hîm the quality," etc.

160. — 3. in-pace, a dungeon or cell in monasterîes and couvents in which erring brethren or sisters expiated their sins. Teraptations left them there in peace, i?i pace.

167. — 15. eoncours agricoles, **fairs," ''agricultural exhibitions," where prizes are given for the best exhibits.

19. la Somme, the Department of the Somme, whose capital is Amiens. The Somme is a river flowing into the English Channel.

21. Bon Marché, the name of a large dry-goods store in Paris.