usances câlines, ' indolent habits

1. 39. attrempé, ' tempered.' It is a word borrowed by Chateaubriand from the Italian attemperaio, being really a term of falconry, and signifying a hawk which is neither fat nor thin.

Page 206. 1. 4. le jeu des banques des divers États s 'entrave, ' the banks of the différent States work against each other.' 1. 20. Celui-là . . . celui-là, 'one . . . another.' 1. 26. chrysogène, a word invented by Chateaubriand from the Greek. It means 4 sprung from gold ' ; hère ' based on money.' 1. 31. la morgue, 'the superciliousness.' 1. 36. Guillaume le Bâtard, ' William the Conqueror.' 1. 39. Un cadet de Gascogne, 'a penniless adventurer.'

Page 207. 1. 23. les possesseurs industriels ou fonciers, ' the merchants or landowners.'

Page 208. 1. 32. comme le vieillard de La Fontaine. The words ' ce que je viens de raconter ' form the last line of La Fontaine's fable of Le Vieillard et les Trois Jeunes Hommes. An old man plants a tree and is laughed at by three youths, becau8e he wiÛ never live to see it grow. One by one the youths die, and the old man has engraved on their tombs the legend

1 PLEUBÉS DU VIEILLABD.'

1. 37. Hérodote. Chateaubriand had a great admiration for the Greek historian Herodotus, whom he studied in his youth and continued to read in his old âge.

Page 209. 1. 2. bien que fourmi. Chateaubriand means that he has toiled with the industry of an ant.

1. 14. à mât et à corde, in Ènglish, ' under bare pôles,' that is, without a stitch of canvas.

1. 15. mettre à la cape, ' to lie to in a gale of wind,' so as to avoid pursuing a dangerous course, especially in dark or very heavy and thick weather.

L 16. gouvernant à V estime, ' to steer by dead reckoning,' that is, without any observation of the heavenly bodies, but simply by course followed and distance run.

1. 21. Feryd-Eddin Athar was a Persian poet of the twelfth century. He was a dervish and wrote philosophical and mystic poems of which the most remarkable is the Pend-Nâmeh, or Book of Counsels.