des vers honorables, estimable lines

P. 12, 1. 6. un digne.,, a worthy...

1. 10. Saint' Cyr, a smaU town near Versailles. Madame de Maintenon founded there in 1680 a school for the gratuitous éducation of 350 young ladies of noble birth, but of reduced circumstances. The buildings of that school were, during the Révolution, given up to a

maîtary academy where Father Lefcbvre was lecturer on Wstory, and

which still ezists.

L 14. une finesse souriante, wit tempered by good nature.