peut-être bien, perhaps at any rate

P. 52, 1. 2. Mathieu Jean Félicité de Montmorency-Laval (1*1^ — 1826), was minister of foreign aifairs in 182 1, and took a part in the congress of Verona ; became a member of the Acadétnie Française in 1825. Was a great friend of Madame de Staël and Madame Rëcamier.

1. 4. Félix Julien Jean Bigot de Fréameneu (1750 — 1825), distinguished as a lawyer ; took an important share in the drawing up of the Code Civil, and was minister of public worship during the empire.

1.13. tout ce qui lui appartient de,.»^ tout ce de bonheur^ etc» . . ,qui lui appartient^ ail his proper share.

1. 17. se dévorer lefoie^ in order not to feel the pangs of disappointment; a metaphorical expression borrowed from the well-known fable of Prometheus, who was supposed to hâve been fastened by order of Zeus on mount Caucasus, where an eagle every day devoared his liver, which was restored again during the night»

1. 31. le comte Tiepolo ; Count Dominico Tiepolo's Discorsi suUa Storia Veneta appeared in 1825.

P* 53f ^* ^^> Lus de suite, read consecutively.

1. 35. Louis Simon Auger (i 772 — 1 829), one of the chief contributors to the Décade philosophique, and to the Journal de V Empire \ has also published a good édition of Molière.

1. 30. ^est un grand bonheur. . .que ces mystères; que hère is redondant.

P* 54f 1* 5* débris de P Empire Romain. The fîrst emigrants assembled in the islands of .the lagoons after the dévastation of Venetia by Alaric in 407—15.