style, ' shaft

1. 29. taures. They were small cells of the nature of a primitive convent, usually found in désert places and inhabited by the anchorites of the Early Church.

Page 67. 1. 26. c'est-à-dire mes bois et mes vallons. It was at this time that Chateaubriand wrote the verses called Forêt M Q

silencieuse. They appeared in 1800 in the Mercure de France, then edited by the poet Fontanes.

Page 68. 1. 13. Taedet animant, &c. The first two quotations are from the Vulgate translation of the Book of Job. The last is a quotation from the Latin poet Lucre tius (95-51 b.c.).

1. 18. une trentaine de pages manuscrites. Thèse writings of Lucile de Chateaubriand were published by M. Anatole France in 1879.

Page 69. 1. 27. Tavemier (1605-1686) was a French traveller distinguished chiefîy for his travels in Turkey, Persia, and India.

Page 71. L 12. Vaffaire du marquis de La Rouerie. The son of this médical attendant Cheftel betrayed his friend and protector le Marquis de La Rouerie during the Révolution, and was the means of his exécution as well as that of several ladies of noble birth.

Page 72. 1. 18. mon île maternelle, i.e. St. Malo. See description, p. 13 of text.

Page 73. 1. 3. nous changeons d'existence et de chimère, *■ we vary our environment and our dreams.'

1. 11. campos ubi Troia fuit, 'the plains where Troy was,' a quotation from Virgil's Aeneid.

1. 15. Abailard or Abélard, Pierre (1079-1142), is one of the most romantic figures of the mediaeval Church. At first a philosopher and professor of philosophy in Paris, he afterwards took the habit of a monk, as the resuit of his unfortunate attachaient for the beautiful Héloïse. In his later days he became involved in theological disputes with St. Bernard, and with difficulty made his peace with the Holy See.