en quelque chose, # à certain extent
50.—6. Oh!..dormir. Æow lite she looked like some one who is asleep.
.31. plein de feux, jx/] of red spots, burning. This expression is poetic and affected.
&1.— 3. lettres bordées de noir. These letters are called lettres de faire part. They notify all acquaintances of a death that has occurred in the family.
18. pèlerins d'Emmaüs. Reference to the disciples of Christ who, while going to the village of Emmaüs, near Jerusalem, after the death of their master, are said to have had a vision of Jesus walking by their side. According to Luke XXIV. 20, they said to him, “ Abide with us, for it is toward evening and the day is far spent.” After taking supper with them ‘he vanished out of their sight.”
52.23. Il y paraissait bien, z7 was easy to see. Note that il is impersonal.
27. Papous, Papuans, natives of New Guinea and other islands of Oceanica. Boschimans, Puskmen, an aboriginal race of South Africa. Both races are considered as being among the lowest types of the human family.
30. Cabanis, physician and philosopher was one of the advocates of materialism. He wrote a book entitled: Aapports du physique et du moral de l'homme.
B3.—1. Dauphin, eldest son of the King of France. The. name comes from Dauphiné, the province that was ceded to France in 1340.
* 2. Luciennes, known also as Zouveciennes, is a little village near Versailles.
4. Jean-Jacques, familiar abbreviation for Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great writer and philosopher whose theories on social
equality and the return to nature had such a deep influence on the men and women of his time, 1712-1778.
17. Miseris succurrere disco. Latin maxim: / /earn to assist the unfortunate.
25. On lui guillotinait. Note this use of the ethical dative.
27. modérantisme: conservatism, a political term applied to the revolutionists who were considered too moderate in thoir opinions. comité, a revolutionary committee which hunted up all those who were considered hostile to the Comité de Salut Public.
28. Sèvres, a little town on the Seine near Versailles. It has a famous porcelain manufactory. Récollets, monks belonging to the Franciscan order and following a very strict rule. . There were many convents of Récollets before the Revolution.
54. — 1. Locke, (1632-1704), one of the most celebrated English philosophers. His principal work, Æssay concerning human understanding (1690) was the foundation of what philosophers call the ‘“ sensational” doctrine.
7. Helvetius (1715-1771), was one of the materialistic philosophers of the 18th century.
12. Femme sensible: the epithet sezsiole was in common use in the 18th century at the approach of the Revolution, when everybody claimed to be sensitive to the woes of humanity.
20. Constitution, the constitution of 1791 enacted by the Assemblée Constituante. It was the first Constitution that France ever had and Louis XVI had sworn to defendit.
22. Jacobin, a member of the revolutionary club that used to hold its meetings in the hall of the former Jacobin convent in the rue Saint-Honoré. The members of that club advocated or supported all the violerit measures taken bythe Revolution : including the acts of Danton, Robespierre and Marat. Hence the word applied and still applies to- 07 to narrow minded and fanatical republicans.
55.—7. Haut-Rhin, until 1870 a department of France; .now represented by the southern part of Alsace-Lorraine. The principal town. is Colmar.
13. à la nation, was a common expressiun used during the revolution by enthusiastic citizens and applied to everything. The bouquets à /a nation were composed of the three colors; the coiffure à la nation was adorned with a tricolor cockade.
19. d’un sien frère, of a brother of his; sien in this phrase is used as an adjective. Although given by Littré as familiar this use is rare and affected in conversation.
