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+15. la Méduse. A French ship that was wrecked on the west

coast of Africa on July 2, 1816. One hundred and forty-nine passengers of the Medusa took refuge on a raft. Twelve days afterwards, when they were rescued, fifteen only remained, the .others having been eaten up by their companions or gone to the bottom of the sea. This shipwreck has been immortalized in a famous painting by Géricault (1819), which is now at the Louvre.

17. Méridional, Southerner. The south of France is called le midi.

16.— 21. Oncle Richard. The subject of the murder of the princes in the tower by their uncle Richard of Vork was made popular in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century by a famous painting of Paul Delaroche (1831),now at the Louvre, and by a drama of Casimir Delavigne, Zes Enfants à Édouard (1833). The special cut of hair of the two children in. Delaroche’s picture became the fashion for young people.

17.— 4. Île Saint-Louis, an island in the Seine east of the Cité. It is connected by bridges with both shores of the Seine and with the part of the C7# where stands the church Notre Dame and is a quiet and retired section of Paris containing some old mansions. ,

6. me faisait grise mine, /rowned sullenly upon me. This idiom is used generally in speaking of persons, not things.

26. féconde, because it fills nature with ghosts of its own creation.