lo» Vindustricy a mercantile spirit

L 15. avant la brouille^ allusion to Duval's quarrel with Picard, at whose recommendation he had been named manager pf the Odëon théâtre in Paris ; this estrangement was fortunately of short duration.

avant P esprit de partie allusion to Roger*s adoption of royalist principles after having accepted office under the empire.

1. 16.. Pierre Edouard Lemontey [\*l^% — 1826). His best work is the M. D. 6

Essai sur Véiahlissenient monarchique de Louis XIV, which gives an imfavourable appréciation of the grand monarque,

1, 25. Shakespeare amoureux^ as the Biographie Universelle calls it, was brought out in 1806.

1. 30. Monsieur Musard (1803), an amusing one-act comedy. Musarda an idler, verb muser ; comp. the English to muse,

L 35. le Mariage clandestin^ an adaptation of Garrick's well known play. Le Trésor^ a five-act comedy, performed in 1804.

P* 381 1. 7. AveZ'Vous tué ce ténia f allusion to the illness from which M. Dani was sufferiug.