Bouquinant. See page 80, note

2. boite à deux sous, f%e case containing the two cent books.

16. en troisième, zx {ke third class, corresponding to the third year preceding the baccalaureate.

20. Saint François, St. Francis of Assisi, a celebrated Italian monk who led a life of ascetic devotion and founded the order of the Franciscans. (1182-1226); jeta le froc aux orties: #7e% off the cowl, common idiom.

25. les trois glorieuses. Name given to the three days of the Revolution of 1830, July 27, 28, 29. Charles X, the last Bourbon king was dethroned by the Parisian bourgeoisie, aided by the National Guard. Louis-Philippe replaced him.

96.—6. tant et si bien, so log and so well; idiom. 12. Philippes: Philippi, a city of Macedonia where Antony and Octavius defeated Brutus and Cassius, 42 B.C. Brutus: a

famous Republican leader who conspired against Cæsar. After . his defeat in the battle of Philippi he committed suicide. 42 B:C%

23. Léonidas, a king of Sparta, reigned 491-480 B.C. With 300 Spartans he defended Thermopylæ, a narrow mountain pass between Thessaly and Greece, against an overwhelming army of Persians under Xerxes. He was killed in the battle.

24. nef: from the latin savis. Obsolete and poetic for navire. Themistocle, a famous Athenian ruler who defeated the Persians under Xerxes at the naval battle of Salamis, a little island on the coast of Attica; 486 B.C.

25e Paul-Émile: Paulus Lucius Æmilius, a Roman consul who was defeated and killed in the battle of Cannae by the army of Hannibal 216 B.C.

26. Trasimène: the lake of Trasimenus in the province of Perugia of to-day. Here Hannibal defeated and annihilated a Roman army in 217 B.C.

28. Pharsale: Pharsalus a city in Thessaly near Larissa of to-day, where Cæsar defeated Pompey in 48 B.C.

29. Varus: Publius Quintilius Varus Roman governor of Germany was defeated by Arminius the German national hero 9 B.C. The loss of the three legions of Varus was one of the most severe blows that the Romans suffered under Augustus,.

30. Hercynie: the Hercynian Forest. In ancient geography it was the mountain range forming the northern boundary to the then known Europe. In modern geography it is usually made to comprise the mountain elevations of central Germany (Wesergebirge, Hartz, Thuringian and Saxon Highland, Giant

Mountains, ett).

97.— 2. Aegos-Potamos: Aëegospotami; a small river and a town of the Thracian Chersonesus (the modèrn peninsula of Gallipoli). It is noted as the place of a naval victory of the Spartans under Lysander over the Athenians (405 B.C.) which led to the close of the Peloponesian war.

3 Numance: Numantia, à city of ancient Spain on the

Douro, near the modern Soria. The siege of Numantia by the Romäns and its desperate resistance 134-133 B.C. is one of the. most thrilling episodes of that time. Some of the besieged people drank poison rather than surrender.

8. Elien: Aelianus Tacticus, a Greek residing in Rome about 100 A. D., wrote a book on the military tactics of the Greeks. :

15. latines que françaises. The Latin theme used to be one of the standard exercises of the classical course in French lycées. The subjects were generally borrowed from ancient history.

17. corrigé: the corrected copy that the teacher wrote out or took from a book to present as a model to the students.