D"* honnêtes gens, gentlemen

1. 21. Le Faux Bonhomme, this comedy was performed only in 18 16, and very unfavourably received. The author, Nêpomuchte-Louis I^mercier (1771 — 1840), composed a great number of plays in which he anticipated some of the innovations made by M. Victor Hugo and the other représentatives of the romantic school.

L 26. D*un caractère à part, of a peculiar temper.

L 29. Breton de naissance, Duval was bom at Rennes (L. Condate^ Redones), capital of the department of Ile et Vilaine.

1. 30. j^//Â2«^^/<i/<iû^9t^ii/, condescendedwithdifficulty. M.Michelet has remarked (ffist, de France, vol. II.) that *4e génie de la Bretagne,

c'est un génie d'indomptable rësistance et d'opposition intrépide^ opiniâtre, aveugle."

P. 42, 1. «. sa poîissêe é^îmaginatîony hîs vîgour of imagination.

1. 6. des hasards de sa veine^ of the chances of his poetic vein.

1. 8. Maison à vendre (1800), a charming comedy, for which Dalayrac wrote the music.

Edouard en Ecosse ou la mdt d*un proscrit (1802), a pîay în three acts, taken from the history of the Chevalier de Saint Geoi^e, was forbidden by the govemment of Napoléon on account of its supposed political character.

1. 16. Les Marionnettes, ou un Jeu de la fortune (1806), one of Picard's best comédies; procured for him a pension from Napoléon. Les Ricochets (1807), an excellent comedietta, notwithstanding its resemblance to les Marionnettes.

P. 43, 1. 12. un peintre de portraits de la rue Saint-Denis, a portrait painter of tradespeople and small merchants. The Rue Saint Denis in Paris corresponds very much to Cheapside or Holbom.