II. De la parole. Apparently ' of speaking in public

1. 31. The ' perte du Rhône,' or * swallow-hole ' of the Rhône, as we

114 quinet's letters to his mother,

should call it in English, though there is no swallow in England on such a scale, is a famous bit of scenery, the position of which the text of this letter makes sufficiently clear. Ail the places named are on, or a little off the Lyons-Geneva road. La Faucille is the steep pass by which the road from Dijon and the north descends the Jura to the lake.

P. 28, 1. 2 2. Ferney, as Voltaire's house, was specially interesting to Madame Quinet, who gieatly admired Mm. Quinet preferred Rousseau. See above.

1. 23. La chapelle, famous for its inscription, Deo erexit Voltaire.