cèdre du Liban. ‘Fhe cedars of Lebanon (Syria) are

famous. A naturalist of the eighteenth century, Bernard de Jussieu brought one back from Syria and planted it in the Jardin des Plantes where it is still.

40.—2. coco, a popular and cheap drink sold in the streets of Paris. It is prepared from licorice juice. 21. À ce coup, #kis time. Coup has often the sense of fois.

Æ1.—4. Yvetot is a little town near Rouen. In the fourteenth, 15th and 16th centuries the lords of that little county had the title of king. Little is known of them.—Le roi d'Yvetot has become popular however through a famous song of Béranger written in 1813 and to which reference is made here. We give the first stanza:

Il était un roi d’Yvetot,

Peu connu dans l’histoire ;

Se levant tard, se couchant tôt,

Dormant fort bien sans gloire,

Et couronné par Jeanneton

D'un simple bonnet de coton, Dit-on.

Ob! oh! oh! oh! ah! ah! ah! ah!

Quel bon petit roi c'était là !

La, la.

42,—1. Henri Heine (1797-1856), was a great German poet and writer who spent much of his time in Paris where he died. See Heinrich Heine’s Gesammelte Werke, 1887, vol. VII, page 387, where occurs the passage here referred to,

22. Dusseldorf, a town of Prussia, on the Rhine, 213,711 inhabitants, where Heine was born.

43.—2. ecrivailler. The ending aÿ//er gives a derogatory meaning to the word écrire = to scrible.