Passion de Raphaël. Love for Raphaël

P. 81, 1. 2. Trouble si affreux. The reader will hâve noticed that Quinet is generally in extrêmes. His troubles and joys both passed rapidly. It has been thought that this phrase refers to religions doubts or struggles, but nothing is clear. The notes referred to previously were worked up in the Italian section of the book called Alle??iagne et Italie. Quinet also carried out his ideas as to the two books mentioned just afterwards.

P. 82, 1. 22. Crève les yeux, 'stares you in the face,' 'is perfectly clear.'

1. 32. Invalides, the Paris Chelsea Hospital, for disabled vétérans.

P. 83, 1. II. Napoléon. His poem so called.

1. 16. Johann Ludwig Uhland (1797-1862), on the whole, the be=t of German ballad-writers of the romantic kind.

1. 24. Gustav Schwab (179 2-1 850), a respectable member of what is called the Swabian school of poets.

1. 29. Danecker, or rather Dannecker, a sculptor, whose Ariadne was his mo5t famous statue.

P. 84, 1. 3, Tubingue. Tiibingen, specially notable for its theological school.

1. 10. Alessandro Count Manzoni (1784-1S74), author of the well-known I Promessi Sposi, and of divers poems and other works.

P. 85, 1. 28. Silvio Pellico (1789-1S54), a tragedian, jouraalist, and novelist, who is generally known by the book Le Mie Prigioni, describing his imprisonment at Spielberg and elsewhere.

P. 86, 1, 12. Truands, lit. ' tramps,' ' ragamuffins.' Not long before, Quinet had been as deep in Mediaevalism as any other of the men of 1830 : he was not alone in getting tired of it,