FOURTH PART

Page 96. — i. ReimSi acelebrated cityin the Department of Marne, 107 miles northeast of Paris. Clovis was baptized hère in 496. In the eighth century it was made an archbishopric, and from 11 79 till the time of Charles X. it was the coronation place of the kings of France.

a. "On the fifteenth day of the month of September (1559), King Francis II. made his entry into the city of Reims, where he was received with ail dévotion and honor by the inhabitants of this city. And on the following Monday, his Majesty was anointed and consecrated in the great church by the Cardinal of Lorraine, in the présence of the princes of the blood and many other great lords, and ail the cérémonies required and preserved by immémorial custom were there observed. Immediately afterwards he departed from that place and abode for some time in the city of Blois" (Nicole Gilles and Belle-Forest in their Anftales de France^ quoted by Godefroy : Le Cérémonial François^ i., p. 311).

The consécration of the King of France was attended with many elaborate cérémonies. The new monarch made a joumey to Reims, and was escorted into the city by the high secular authorities ; masses were then offered, in which the King took part. On the coronation day he was conducted to the Church of Notre Dame ; the sacred vessel containing the anointing oil was brought in and delivered into the hands of the archbishop. This was foUowed by the adminis^ation of thé oath, by which the King promised to préserve the faith of the Church, to suppress evil-doers, to rule with justice and mercy, and to endeavor to exterminate ail heresy within the realm. He was then anointed on the head, on the breast, between the two shoulders, on the right and on the left shoulder, and on the right and left arms; at each application the Monsieur de Reims exclaimed : "Ungo te in Regem de oleo sanctificato, in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti." The King was then clothed in his royal garments, the sceptre placed in his hand and the crown upon his head. After the célébration of a mass, he was ledl^ack to the palace amid the shouts of the people : " Vivat Rex in setemum ! "

Page 98. — z. Qu'elle Ini en fit une finesse, "that she was deceiving him." (" La finesse dans ce sens est la finesse d'esprit conduite jusqu'à un mauvais usage." — Littré.)

Page 101. — z. Anet, a château built in 1552 by Philibert Delorme, by order of Henry II., for Diana of Poitiers. It was embellished by the best artists of France, — Goujon, Pilon, Cousin, etc. The building was partly destroyed during the Révolution.

a. Chambort, a magnificent palace about ten miles east of Paris, constructed by Pierre Napren for Francis I., and decorated by Cousin, Pilon, and others. It was afterwards owned by King Stanislaus, then by the family of Polignac, afterwards by Marshal Berthier. In 1821 it was granted to the Duke of Bordeaux, and is now in the possession of his descendants.

Page 110. — z. Blois, chief city of the Department of Loir-et-Cher, on the right bank of the Loire, about iio miles south-southwest of Paris. Its

Counts were of the family of Hugh Capet. During the reign of Charles the Simple, it was in the possession of Thibaut, Count of Chartres. It remained to his descendants till 1491, when it came into the hands of the Duke of Orléans, afterwards Louis XII., who united it to the possessions of the Crown. Blois then became a favorite resort of the House of Valois ; Francis I. and Charles IX. resided there. A fine description of the palace is given in Balzac's Catherine de Medici.

Page 111. — I. Que in the sensé oi pourquoi, (See also page 126, line 23.)

Page 112. — I. Est-ce de vous dont je parle? such is the reading of the édition edited by E. Flammarion, which text has been mostly followed in this édition. A préférable reading is that of the édition of P. A. Moutardier, edited by Etienne and Jay : est-ce vous dont je parle? Compare ce n^ est pas moi dont vous parlez (Une 24), and ce n^est pas vous dont vous parlez (page 83, line 28). The reading of the édition of Gamier Frères is : est-ce de vous que je parle ?

Page 113. — I. S'il n'y alloit que de mon «intérêt, "if my interests alone were at stake."

Page 115. — I. This tender and praise^yorthy resolution of Madame de Clèves f urnishes the true explanation of her actions tbward the Duke of Nemours after the death of her husband, — a course of conduct which some of Madame de La Fayette's critics find so inexplicable. (See d'Haussonville's Vie de Mme, de La Fayette^ p. 190.)

Page 116. — I. Plus de devoir, plus de vertu, "no more requirements of duty or virtue."

Page 119. — I . Supposant, " under the pretext."

Page 122. — i. Notice the use of the future and the conditional in interjectional expression in the sensé of the présent and past tenses. Translate : " Can it be that a mère fancy prevents you from giving happiness to a man," etc.

Page 126. — i. Monsieur de Clèves ne fait encore que d'expirer, " M. de Clèves has just died."

Page 127. — I. Elle ne fît de déclarations et ne prît engagement, " lest she should make certain promises and bind herself," referring possibly to her withdrawal from the world into a religions house, or perhaps to a simple vow never to marry again.

Page 131. — I. Dont, an incorrect use of the relative, noticed by Valincour. Dont is not used as a compound relative ; the correct expression would be de celui que.