Renaud. See note to p

Page 197. 1. 34. la patrie d? Hélène et de Ménélas, i.e. Sparta. Helen, wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta, was carried off by Paris, son of Priam, King of Troy. Hence arose the expédition of the Greeks to Asia Minor, and the siège and capture of Troy as recounted by Homer.

Page 198. 1. 19. le père Aubry, one of the characters in Chateaubriand' s Atala.

1. 24. Falsi Simoentis . . . Andromache poured out a libation to the dead by the waves of the pseudo-Simois, Aeneid iii. 302-303.

1. 29. Adrien. This is the Emperor Hadrian (a.d. 76-138), the protector of the Christians and the conqueror of the Jews.

Page 199. 1. 4. des coches cfeau, * barges/