à votre langage : to be connected with survive

1. 35. la Restauration, i.e. the dynasty of the Bourbons as restored after the Battle of Waterloo and the final banishment of Napoléon I.

Page 182. 1. 9. Notre-Dame d'Aix-la-Chapelle : the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, which was built by Charlemagne in the eighth century, and in which his remains were deposited.

1. 15. sa Joyeuse. It was customary in the âge of chivalry for great warriors to give names to the swords which they had wielded in battle. Thus the sword of Charlemagne was called Joyeuse, and the sword of the ill-fated Roland Durandal.

1.32. Colbert. Jean - Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) was the famous finance minister of Louis XIV. He restored the financial crédit of France, and reconstituted the French navy. Arts, science, and commerce flourished under his protecting aegis, and his genius was one of the guiding forces in this, the most illustrious era of French history.

1. 37. Celui qui hier me faisait, i.e. George IV. Lord Francis Conyngham was Groom of the Bed-Chamber to that monarch, and Chateaubriand wrote this part of his Mémoires in London, at the time when he was French ambassador to the Court of St. James.

Page 183. 1. 15. Mila. See note to p. 178, 1. 25. 1. 18. Vavrillée, ' the sweet April time.'

Page 184. 1. 4. leurs manitous, * their gods.' 1. 19. sachems. See note to p. 167, 1. 19.

Page 185. L 36. des Natchez. Hère the tribe living by tho lower waters of the Mississippi, after which Chateaubriand named his prose -poem of Les Natchez.

1. 39. Bartram was a traveller in the Southern States of North America. He wrote a book called Bartrarris Travels in North and South Carolina, containing valuable information on oraithology and other subjects.

Page 186. 1. 5. Atala et Chactas, characters from Chateaubriand'8 romance of Atala.

1. 15. obélarias. The name is not found in either dictionaries or treatises on botany. It is probably meant for obier, of which there are many kinds in ail parts of the world, and in North America it goes by the name of cranberry-tree. It may also be a misprint for obeliscarias.

1. 24. de quelques grandes nations tombées. Chateaubriand means Greece or Rome. Some of the ruins still extant in Mexico prove the truth of his surmise.