François 1er, King of France

2o6 NOTES [P. 58—65.

Page 58. — i. circonstances de clocher, parish events.

2. séides; cf. the character of Séide in Voltaire's tragedy of Mahomet, in which the prophet's most unscrupulous devotee, Séide, even commits murder at the instigation of Mahomet.

3. il serait à désirer, lit., "it would be désirable"; trans., one could wish.

4. qu'elle leur doit inspirer, with which it must inspire them.

Page 59. — i. notre jeune Amérique, Le., young people who do not hold sacred the fair name of woman. Cf. our slang phrase " Young America," to which this is evidently an allusion.