i£. un demi-Ménandre. r

"Tu quoque tu in summis, o dimidiate Menander, Poneris..." (Caesar.)

1. 16. cet éloipiement complet pour.,., that complète brcaking away from... ' . . ;

' 1. 1 7. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais ( 1 732 — 1 799). There is a total want of dignity about him, but at the same time a good deal of common sensé, and a clear appréciation of the feelings of France during the last days of the reign of Louis XVI. Le mariage de Figaro (1784), and Le Barbier de Séville ( 1 776) are two dramati^d satires rather than two comédies.

1. 25. le chemin de Saint-Cloudy the road to Saint-CIoud, a village near Paris on the banks of the Seine. The palace of Saint-Cloud was Napoleon*s favourite résidence.

1. 27. Jean François Cailhava (1731 — 1813), a dramatic author of very Uttle réputation, but an enthusiastic admirer of Molière. His best play, VÉgoismCf a five-act comedy, was performed in 1777.

1. 28. yean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière (1622 — 1673), the greatest of French dramatists, as distinguished a writer as he was a thinker. "Molière, c'est mon homme," said La Fontaine.

P. 40, 11. 3 — 5, le peintre, etc., the clever painter, exhibiting to visitors his model in the most favourable light, has dexterously touched on the severity of the old school in order to describe only the brilliancy of the new one.

Lu. ce qui prononce, that which characterises, stamps, or distinguishes.