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Kéunissait. At the Sorbonne

1. 13. La terre étrangère. He had been imprisoned for six months as a Carbonaro, a member of the dreaded secret societies directed against the régime of the Holy Alliance (1815-1830).

M 8 quinet's letters to mis mother.

1. 19. This translation, which does not ill deserve Quinet's praise, occupied Cousin at intervais till 1840.

P. 57, 1. 8. Qui as xin fond, etc. ' Who are at bottom given to sadness and abstraction.'

1. 16. Cercle, in the sensé of the ' enchanted circles' of story, from which those within cannot get out, nor can those without penetrate within.

1. 28. L'utilité générale. By no means translate, ' gênerai utility,' which, especially on the stage, means something quite différent in English. ' Usefulness to the world at large ' is the sensé.

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