les revers, ' the flans

1. 35. vous garderez trois jours les arrêts, ' you will be confined to barracks for three days.'

1. 39. du tombeau de Fénelon. Fénelon (see note to p. 8, 1. 34) is buried at Cambrai, of which he was the Archbishop.

Page 83. 1. 1. de V historiette philanthropique. Fénelon, having heard that some poor peasants had lost their cow, procured them assistance, but on his way back to his palace he came across the strayed cow and brought it back himself to the cottagers. The story has been beautifully told in verse by Andrieux. See ' Une promenade de Fénelon,' Mélanges littéraires, by Jean S. Andrieux, in this séries.

1. 4. avec le roi, i.e. Louis XVIII on his second return to Paris after the Battle of Waterloo.

1. 9. Frédéric II, Frédéric the Great of Prussia, died in 1786.