Mémoires, in this sensé, is best translated *papers

P. 66, 1. 8. Giambattista Vico (16S8-1744), a jurist, and almost the founder of the Philosophy of History, was one of the greatest of Italian thinkers. Michelet translated his principal work, the Scienza Nîwz'a, in 1827.

P. 67, 1. 12. Prise, taken up.

1. 22, Dargaud. Apparently the same who afterwards wrote, in 1850, an interesting life of Mary Stuart. He died in 1866.

1. 29. Élection. As Deputy for Lisieux. Guizot's first wife had

lao quinet's letters to iiis mother.

been dead some three years, and he had married her nièce Elisa Dillon, who did not herself live very long. M. de Broglie (Duke Victor de Broglie, 1785-1870), the father of the présent- Duke, a politician of great eminence. Guizot was closely connected with the Broglie family, and owed something of his position to them.

1.34. Port politique, 'crafty;' *full of policy.' The adjective 'politic,' is not now often used, in this sensé, in English.

P. 68, 1. 3. Charles Augustin Sainte-Betive (1804-1869), the greatest of French critics. It does not appear what reason for ' reconciliation' wilh him Quinet had.

1, 7. Voyage. Quinet had just returned from accompanying a government mission to the Morea.

1. 24. Pierre Paul Koyer-Collard (i 763-1845). A very distinguished philosopher, and, like most prominent French men of letters during the earlier part of this century, a politician of eminence. He began life as a partisan of the Révolution, but became a libéral and moderate royalist. He was at this time Président of the Chamber of Deputies.

1. 29, 30. Mémoires . , . travail. The ofïîcial report of his archseological enquiries in Greece.

1. 35. La Grèce. A more popular account of his travels, entitled La Grèce Moderne dans ses rapports avec PA^itiquité. It appears, but much altered and remodelled, among Quinet's works,

P. 69, 1. 7. La Femme guillotinée. I suppose, Janin's curious romance, L'Ane Mort et la Femme Guillotinée, more usually quoted by the first half of its title. Quinet's praise is just. Janin had been a school-fellow of his at Lyons, and a comrade at the École de Droit.

1. 9. Ballanche. A respectable man of letters. He was of the coterie of the beautiful Madame Récamier, with whom nearly ail her contemporaries, literary and political, fell in love, and who loved no one.