Quinet had now for some time been married

P. 87, 1. 3. Il avait le jeu fin. * He played his game well.'

1. 26. Se morfondre is properly applied to horses which take cold by standing about in rain or wind, while hot. Metaphorically, it is used of tedious and profitless waiting. Our ' kick the heels,' though a différent metaphor and weaker, is the nearest idiomatic translation.

P. 88, 1. 23. Pour le Midi. This was not accidentai, but was due to the influence of Fauriel, for years professor of Foreign Literature in the Paris Faculty of Letters, which had made the study of the Romance languages, of modem Greek, etc., popular in France.

1. 29. A pris couleur, 'has taken a side,' 'declared himself of a decided opinion.'

P. 89, 1. 4. L'histoire des Niebelungen. The great German, or rather, Scandinavian epic, on which Quinet had written. liis indignation would be juster, if he had not been constantly in the habit of dragging politics into his writings.

1, 10. Mes opinions. Louis Philippe had long oLjected to Quinet's Republicanism.

1. 19. Berchet. See p. 'i^, which explains this. Quinet's opinions on the Ilalian patriots would hâve offended Austria,

1. 32. Laprade. Victor de Laprade (1812-1884), a poet of a serions kind, but of much merit. This * poem ' was his last work, Psyché. He had just given up the bar, for literature, whence the importance of a publisher to him.