chaussée de: lit. 'wearing.' Note the French words

coiffé, chaussé, ganté, de qc, 'wearing something on one's head, feet, hands ' ; la chaussure, 'foot-gear,' ail kinds of boots and shocs ; des chavssrttcs (f.), 'socks.'

,, 15. se perdait, ' disappeared.'

,, 24. à qui , . faisait désirer : mark the construction after faire with iufin. When the infin. lias a direct objeet the person compelled, who is logically the subject of the infin., becoraes an indirect objeet to the composite verbal expression. Cf. il Jit hoire les soldats, \>\\t il fit boire de Veau aux soldats.

66. 23. Arago : a celebrated French astronomer, director of the

Paris Observatory (1786-18.')3).