Et coiffé d^ un velours -= avec un velours

1. 30. Que ceint en auréole— comme une auréole, — un vieux galon fripé, an old pièce of tamished lace.

P. 37, 1. 8. le svdte et le découpé, the fireedom and picturesqueness. -^Svelte, from the ItaL svelto, hght.-^DAoupé, liter. eut out, i. e. the neatly defined features.

L 10. il ne serre d^ assez près, he does not reuder with sufficient accuracy,

P. a8, 1. I. la suite, evenness of style.

des parties de force.,, i.e. pleines de force,

1. 5. Louis Benoit Picard (1769 — 1828), has written upwards of eighty plays, and excels chieây in tuming into ridicule the pretensions of the bourgeoisie. Plis style is pre-eminently witty and animated*

L 7. Vincent Campenon (1772 — 1843), author ofseveral estimable poems, wrote also a translation of Horace, and has left some interesting memoirs on Delille.

François Roger (1776— 1842), known by a few agreeable comédies, the best of which, V Avocat, is imitated from Goldoni.

Alexandre DuvaI'PineuX^*l^*l — 1842) ; out of his fifty plays (come

dîes, libretHoî opéras, etc. ) the most lemarkable are Le Tyran domestique (1805) and La Fille d'honneur (1819).

The five littérateurs just named were ail members of the Académie JFhtnçaise,