François 1er, King of France

Page S8« — X. circonstances de clocher, parish events,

a. séides; cf. the character of Séide in Voltaire's tragedy of

Mahomet^ in which the prophètes most unscrupulous devotee. Séide.

even commits murder at the instigation of Mahomet.

3. U 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. — z. notre jeune Amérique, Le., young people who do not hold sacred the f air name of woman. Cf. oui slang phrase ** Young America," to which this is evidently an allusion.

a. ogirale, L e., in the Gothic style of architecture.

Page 60« — z. ne; note the pleonastic use of^^af ter <zz;<z»/^i^^.

a. Mme de Staël, one of the great precursors of the Romantic movement in French literature, and the author of Delphine (1802), Corinne (1807), and de VAllemagney (1810). In the last work she employs, for the first time, the term Romantic as opposed to Classic in literature. The word turban is an allusion to her favorite head-dress. In her exile she often sighed for the gutter (ruisseau) of the Rue de Bac, near which she lived.