Guillaume Tell, by Rossini

1. 29. Les Confessions, of Rousseau. Abel François Villemain (1790-1867). A famous critic, closely connected about this time with Guizot and Cousin, and, like them, a politician as well as a man of letters.

1. 33. C'est trop intime pour affronter un grand bruit. ' It is too much a matter of personal feeling and expérience to bear the noise of public discussion,' is something like the sensé of this, but it cannot be translated very closely in English.

P. 70. 1. I. Le Globs. A very famous newspaper, both for opposition politics and liLerary criticism. Dubois was its editor.

1. 5. Wavarin, The battle of Navarino had been fought three years before. Qiiinet apparently means, that the scenery in the Panorama looked at tîrst genuine to him, though he had seen the original, but was in reality a mère fancy sketch, with Montmartre for model.

1. 7. Mémoires. iMoore's Li/e : the actual Memoirs were destroyed. Robert Charles Dallas (i 754-1824), wrote some réminiscences of Byron. Charles Nodier (1780-1844), a fertile man of letlers. wrote much miscellaneous work, and some exquisite short stories. Much of his work has the fantastic character which Quinet attributes, in rather harsh terms, to the Histoire du roi de Bohême et de ses sept Châteaux.

1. 15. Doctrinaires, the political school of which Guizot was the head.

1, 25. Le National. Another opposition paper, the leading spirit of which was Armand Carrel, afterwards shot by Emile de Girardin. Between this letter and the last, the Révolution of July had taken place, and had seated Louis Philippe on the throne.

P. 71, 1. 1 2. Me portait dans ses prunelles, ' loved me as the apple of his eye.'

1. 18. M. Victor Hugo has always been lavish of praises for his friends : but he scarcely ever let praise get the better of criticism more than on this occusion.

1. 23. Rue. This was the Rue Jean Goujon, where Hugo lived till

P. 72, 1. 1. Un h.omnie fort, in French, is not exactly 'a strong man,' but a man distinguished for character, or ability.

1. 7. La Confassion. Janin's second novel. The meaning of the sentence seems to be, that Janin found Quinet's book very différent in character and subject from his own récent work and studies.

1. 32. La famille. . . . The 'Famille vraiment alsacienne' of the last letter.

P. 73, 1. 20. One of thèse portraits cxists, and has been engraved. The young lady's affections did not lead her to flatter Quinet.

P. 74, 1. 32. Où j'en suis. Not 'where I am ' in the literal sensé, but 'what is my situation?' M, Quinet had never fully reconciled himself to his son's living a literary life.

P. 75, 1. 5. Rouge et Noir, more properly le Rouge et le Noir, a novel of Henri Beyle, who called himself De Stendhal. Beyle's satirical spirit would hâve appealed more to Madame Quinet than to her son.

122 quinet's letters to his mother.

p. 76, 1. 4. Treutte. One of the diminutives of Gertrude.

1. 6. Ondine. A water-sprite, generally. But Quinet is no doiibt referring to La Motte Fouqué's universally known taie of Undine.

P. 77, 1. 18. Métier, 'routine work.'

1. 21. Les Belges. The propositions were for help against the Dutch, Belgium being now in rébellion against the kingdom of the Netherlands.

1. 26. Jean Louis Eugène Lerminier (1800-1857), afterwards a distinguished jurist.