écharpes de ruines, ' sweeps of ruin

1. 20. Et praeceps Anio . . . , a quotation from the First Book of the Odes of Horace.

1. 29. battu des mains aux ruines de Thèbes. Chateaubriand probably refers to the campaigns of Napoléon in Egypt and Spain.

Page 176. 1. 7. Jogues et LaUemant were Jesuit missionaries in Canada. The first was tortured to death by the Indians. The second lived among them for forty years.