joue à la fermière, am playingfarmer's wife

loi. Marie Antoinette, called pauvre reine, because of her tragic death, Oct. i6, 1793, had a tiny palace in the parle at Versailles, where she and her court intimâtes played at simplicity à la Rousseau. This building with its garden, artificial lake, Temple of Love, and " hamlet " was built by Louis XV. for Madame du Barry, and is called Petit Trianon, to distinguish it from the Grand Trianon, a little to the southwest, and some half mile from the great Palace of Versailles.

102. Florian (i 755-1 794) was then a popular writer of idyls, pastorals, and fables, distinguished by their artificiality, delicacy, and sentiment.

103. Watteau (i 684-1 721), a noted French painter in whom the artificial taste of his day is redeemed by a brilliant joyousness of feeling and a vvonderful lightness in technique, goûterait peu, ivould care little for. bergerie en prose, prosaic sheep-cote, contrasted with the poetic fancies of the pastoral poets and artists with whom beribboned sheep were quite in order.

123. This is a common proverb, hence the omission of the articles.