le père nourricier, the foster-father

1. 20. d'une mcUn fatiguée de vingt-sept heures ri^...the first de stands for avec, the second îot par, the third is the genitive.

1. 29. qiion suppose à son front; supposer is hère ingeniously taken as if derived from super ponere; lui en former— former pour lui une couronne d'elle (i.e. de cette sérénité)', or it may be explained thus — ^W suppose (appartenir) à son front.

P* 45» !• 3« théâtre Louvois, founded in 1793, by Mademoiselle Montansier; it was handed over to the opéra in 1794* and in 1804 took the name of théâtre de V impératrice,

1. 32. Guatimozin, or rather Quauhtemotzin. The exact terms of the rebuke are, "Do you think I, then, am taking my pleasure in my bath?" See Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, m. 209.

P. 46, 1. 2. Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert (1751 — 1780), n distinguished French poet, but whose talent has been too much praised by some and depreciated by others. His satires le I>ix-huitième siècle and mon apologie brought down upon him the wrath of the Encyclopedist £chool.

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Tkomas Chatterton (1751 — 1770), the weâ-known author of the poems ascribed to a supposed mediseval poet named Rowley.

L 7. capucin, The order of mendicant friars, known by the name of Capuchins^ was established in 1525*

1. 8. trappiste^ The abbey of La Trappe, belongmg to the Cîstercian order, and founded in 1140, by Rotrou, count of "Perche, near Mortagne, department of Orne, was reformed in 1662, by the celebrated abbé de Rancë. They took the vow of perpétuai silence.

1. 38. Le Génie du . Christianisme* François Hené, Vtscount de Châteauôriaf^d {l'jôS — 1848). His character présents a singular mixture of vanity, of scepticism and of enthusiasm. Without any well-defined Une of conduct, having no settled principle to direct him in his course, he has still enjoyed very great influence. The Génie du Christianisme was desîgned to be a new apologetical exposition of Christianity, but it must rather be considered as a modem arspœtica, an improvement upon Horace and Boileau.

L 29. qui avait fait époque^ which had inaugurated an epoch* The Génie du Christianisme appeared in 1801, and was dedicated to Napoléon who had signed the Concordat (September, 1801} with the Pope»

1. 30. les prix décennaux. Napoléon had instituted in 18 10 a séries of prizes destined to reward the chef s-cT oeuvre in every branch of literature, art and science produced during the previous ten years. On ail this see M. Sainte-Beuve's Chateaubriand et son groupe littéraire. Lectures XI— XVI.

P. 47, 1. II. il a fait avènement à son heure, he has ascended the (literary) throne at his appointed time.