Jean Goujon : a famous sculptor and architect born in

Paris in 15 15. His best-known work is the " Fontaine des Innocents."

27. la statuaire : one of those nouns with both genders which

in the masculine dénote a person, and in the féminine an object, an action, or an art. Cf. critique, fourbe, trompette, etc.

26. I. cette statuaire nationale . . : the most illustrions French

sculptors of the sixteenth century, besides Jean Goujon, are Jean Cousin (1500-1589), whose busts of Francis I. and Philippe Chabot are to be seen in the Louvre, and Germain Pilon (1535 -1590), to whom are due the mausoleums of Francis I. and Henry II. and the group of the Three Grâces, one of the masterpieces of French sculpture.

3. Michel-Ange : pronounce the ch like a k. Michael Angelo Buonarotti was born at Caprese, in Tuscauy, in 1475, and died at Rome in 1564. At the same time a painter, a sculptor, an architect, and a poet, he is one of the greatest artists that ever lived, and the boldness of his imagination still remains unequalled. Besides the dôme of St. Peter's, his chief works are, in sculpture, the monument of Pope Julius II. and the Descent of Christ from the Cross ; and, in painting, the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel (notablv the Last Judgment) and in the Pauline Chapel (the Conversion of St. Paul, and the Crucifi.xion of St. Peter).

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26. 3- d'emblée, ' at once,' from Old French emèler, ' to ravish,'

' carry away by violence. ' ( Low Latin imbulare, from ifivolare, ' to snatch whilst flying.')

24. votre époux : note that it is a mark of ill-breeding to use époux and épotise instead of mari and feinmc in ordinary style.

27. II. il est vrai : for this cxceptional use of il est instead of c'est

before vrai when modifying a previous statement cf. Corneille's Le Cid, II. iii. —

Je suis jeune, il est vrai ; mais aux âmes bien nées La valeur n'attend pas le nombre des années.

en puissance de mari • a légal phrase ; say ' under the conlrol of a husband. '