de mise, ' fashionable, acceptable

18.— 4. " l'homme Bensible," ' thesensitive man,' i.e. Rousseau, whose partly sensible, but largely sentimental works stirred up great enthusiasm and sham spéculation at the time.

29. entre deux madrigaux, ' between two madrigals ' (pastoral verses), i.e. while pausing to muse between two madrigals.

19.— 5. poufB au sentiment, sort of head-dresses expressing the wearer's sentiments.

15. à tout le moins, ' at the very least.' {tout adv., Edgr. § 292. 2 ; Wh. § 116. c.)

25. Trianon, a château near Versailles, was a favorite lesort of Marie Antoinette (wife of Louis XVI).

30. Mme Adélaïde, the eldest daughter of Louis XV. 20.— 5. le comte d'Artois, brother of Louis XVI.

17. od ce monde finit, ' when this world (= state of society) is coming to an end ' (i.e. is about to be engulfed by the Révolution).