fis dantemjura Catonem, see Virgil, jEn. viii

1. 26. Lottis de Fontanes (1761 — 1821) was the officiai littérateur of the Empire. His poetry, although graceliil and harmonious, has no pre* tensions to originality.

Joseph Joubert (1734 — 1824), the intîmate frîend of Fontanes and Chateaubriand ; a man of exquisite taste, but who has left behind him no literary work except a small collection of detached thoughts, which hâve been several times reprinted.

Charles Julien Pioult de Chênedollé {i'j6g—iS^^\ a descriptive poet of some talent. On him see M. Sainte-Beuve*s Châteauâriand et son groupe,

L 27. comme critique et comme Juge, as président of the Corps Légis* ib/^memberof the Instîtute and grand master of the French university,

86 M. DAKU.

hîs dnty bbliged him to be constantly panegyrinng^ and he did so i^th better taste than mIgUt perhaps bave been expected.

P. 48, 1. I. bien autrement =^bîen plus^ far more.

U tranchaity be assumed a trenchant tone.

1. 13. iC eussent point à âeaueoup près, had not byfar; liter. nearta much,

1. 15. ils ne laissaient pets,,. de eomposer^ tbey composed nevertbeless.