étude, the study room in boarding schools

22. en-tout-cas, swwshade, a parasol that may be used as an umbrella in case of rain. Somewhat obsolete.

23. n'avaient point voiture: #’avarent point de voiture would be a less affected expression. Compare the more natural form: [Z a cheval et voiture.

25. Réaliser in French means only # convertinto money. The common English meaning would be rendered by, s2 rendre compte.

26. Bade, Baden-Baden or Baden; a small city of the grand duchy of Baden, Germany. Itis a famous watering place and used to be one of the great gambling resorts of Europë.

27. martingale infaillible, ax ixfallible method for winning. Often it refers to a special gambling custom called ‘double or quits. — Joua gros jeu, 4e played high.

28. à l’effet de, x order to; a somewhat formal substitute for pour or afin de...

31. Brie, a small section of the province cf Champagne around Meaux and Château-Thierry.

32.—5. aux Chambres, #0 he Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.— l’Institut. The name given to the reunion of the five Academies:, Académie Française, Académie des Sciences, Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Académie des Beaux-Arts.

12. Pour... était, Zowever much of a girl she was. Pour followed by an adjective and 94e with either subjunctive or indicative is a literary use borrowed from the 17th century.

philosopher, is the author of a great dictionary in five volumes : Dictionnaire de la langue française, which is a universally acknowledged authority on the French language. Littré’s life was one of absolute devotion to science. His: philosophic ideas came near prevénting his election into the French Academy. Ile was a positivist.

20. Nozière: the name that Anatole France gives to his family in all his references toit. See his book entitled: P/erre ANozière.

36. — Le Jardin des Plantes or Muséum d’Histoiré naturelle is an old and important zoological garden of Païis, où the left bank of thé Seine." It was founded in 1635 a$ a garden Of inédicinal herbs, and rapidly developed into a vêry complete côllection of natural history. Buffon was put at its head in the year 1731. To-day the museum of natural history is also à school for natural science with lectures by the greatest scholars.

Ë 37.— de fonment, ...$/y prenaient, Zow #hey 2? vczeded, sel about, .