un portemanteau de livrée, ' an attendant in livery

Page 59. 1. 26. Vabbé de Marolles (1600-1681), the translater of the Clas8ic8, mentions in his Mémoires that, as a boy in Hungary, he was driven to church by four white horses which had been captured from the Turks at the Battle of Komorn.

1. 29. pour faire ses Pâques, ' to take his Easter communion.'

Page 60. 1. 11. des cénobites. The distinction between a cénobite and an anchorite in monastic rule is that the former lives in a community and the latter in isolation.

Page 61. 1. 25. du vol du chapon. The vol du chapon in the division of ancestral lands was that spécial portion which fell to the eldest son over and above the part which was entailed.

1. 32. Albane (1578-1660), called the Italian Painter of the Grâces from his love of such subjects as angels and children.

Page 63. 1. 37. losanges, i.e. diamond-shaped.

Page 64. 1. 13. le père de Montaigne. In one of his finest es8ays, entitled De V Institution des Enfants (Livre I, xxv), Montaigne tells us how his father did not approve of being rudely awakened in the morning, because ' cela trouble la cervelle tendre des enfants, de les éveiller le matin en sursaut, et de les arracher du sommeil, auquel ils sont plonges beaucoup plus que nous ne sommes, tout à coup, et par violence ; il me faisait éveiller par le son de quelque instrument, et ne fut jamais sans homme qui m'en servît.'

Page 65. 1. 15. quand et, an old équivalent of avec.

Page 66. 1. 18. vénusté, * beauty.'