parlement. See <' L'Edit de Nantes/' note

11. Yincennes, situated five miles frcxn Paris, bas a fine park, an arsenal, and a fortress built bj Philippe-Auguste (1166-1223) where the kings of France resided for a long time.

26. le reteur triomphant de Xaiarin. Mazarin was exiled twice, in 1651 and in 1652. In 1658 he was recalled by Louis XIV. himself ; he made a triumphal entrj in Paris, where however he was received with sig^ificant silence.

27. ballet, or ballet d'aotion, a kind of theatrical performance in which a storj is told only by gesture accompanied bj music and dancing. Menestrier, who inrented a ballet for Louis XIV., defines it thus: "Ballets are dumb comédies, which should be divided into acts and scènes like other theatrical pièces ; . . . the ântrées of dancers are equal in number tothe scènes."

21.— 2. le Palais-Boyal. See "Luxe de Richelieu,'' note 13. 16.

2. le Petit-Bourbon was formerly the palatial résidence of the great Bourbon familj ; at this time it was a théâtre in Paris, where the plays of Corneille and Molière were presented. It no longer ezists.