du moins, at any rate

1. 30. mon père. M. Necker, minister of finance under Louis XVI, from 1776 to 1781. In the latter year he resigned, owing to the popular feeling excited by the fallacies of his famous 'Compte Rendu,' or Budget. He came to power again in 1787, on the résignation of Brienne, and acted as Prime Minister till his dismissal (July 11, 1789). Recalled in déférence to the popular demand on July 17, 1789, he finally retired to Switzerland in September, 1790.

1. 31. lorsque Je fus tm peu remise, when I had a little recovered.

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I. 12. à nous connus — co7inus par nous. The use of the prepos. à instead of par is constant in French, and shews that à {—par) is exactly the équivalent of the Latin à, ab. Mathurin Cordier (De corrupti sermonis emendatione, chap. iii.), quoting the sentence: 'Il ne veut pas se laisser battre à son régent,' ad vises the pupil to translate it thus into Latin : A prœceptore non sinit se verberari. 1. 15. Sa tournure, his appearance.

1. 16. az^rt^/^^i? ^^//«i", an additional advantage. 1. 27. tiennent autant, are as much the resuit. 1. 29. attrait = qualité attrayante, charms, attraction; thus again: '■^ Quels attraits penses-tu qu'ait pour nous la couronne?"

(Corneille, Rodogune.) 1. 30. ne sauraient = ne peuvent. Notice that after the conjunction ni repeated, the verb can be put indififerently in the singular or the plural. "Aï mon jugement, ni ma volonté ne dictèrent ma réponse."

(J. J. Rousseau, Rêveries.) ^* Ni Grimm ni personne ne m'a jamais parlé de cet air."

(J. J. Rousseau, Confessions.)