somme toute, taking them altogetber

une bonne race, a good breed.

1. 2 1. la société éPAuteuil. The free-tbinking disciples of Voltaire and Rousseau used to assemble at Auteuil, near Paris, in the drawingroom of Madame Helvétius, and there, in their éloquent convetsations, tbey botb discussed the great questions of metaphysics, and encouraged each other in their adhérence to those principles of liberty whicb the Premier Consul had trampled under foot. Thus, through the force of circumstances, the celebrated société cPAuteuU was the great centre of constitutional opposition to Bonaparte, and, from its midst came forth those who, in 181 5, voted for tbe dethronement of the Emperor.

1. 23. Pierre Louis Cingtiené {i^j^^ — 18 16). His history of Italian literature is well known.

Pierre Claude François Daunou (1761 — 1840), distinguished as an élégant and leamed historian. His Cours d'études historiques (20 vols. 8vo.) bas eamed for him much réputation; '*le caractère, Térudition et les talents de Daunou lui ont mérité Testime générale." (Vapereau.)

Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754 — 1836). The metaphysician of the Auteuil coterie ; a good writer, but an unsound pbiloso» pher, because his System rests exclusively upon a physiological basis.

L 37. d'une cotitinuité plus modéra, more moderate in their unifortnity.

1. 30. de 1^12, Invasion of Russia by Napoléon. The Frencb defeated in Spain.

P. 49, 1. 9. Paulf count de Ségur (1780 — 1873). His Histoire de Napoléùn et de la Grande Armée eti 18 J3, published for the first time in 1834, obtained at once the greatest success; but it was generally thought to be written too much with a yiew to effect.

1. 10. Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc, Duke de Frioul (1772— T1813), one of the bravest and most faithful of Napoleon's gênerais.

Armand Augustin de Caulahtcourt, Duke de Vicence (1772 — 1837)»

.celebrated as a diplbmatîst, minister of foreign afïairs in 1814, and during the "hundred days."