on m'envoie chercher, for on envoie me chercher

Page 74. 1. 27.—

The world was ail before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide, are the last lines of the 12th book of Milton's Paradise Lost.

1. 36. de la main du bourreau. Jean-Baptiste de Chateaubriand perished during the Révolution.

Page 75. 1. 4. je me trouvai mal. A description of this last visit to Combourg is preserved in one of the finest passages in René.

Page 76. 1. 9. désinvolte, ' unconventional.'