en connaissance de cause, knowingly

L 5. Pierre Jean Grosley (1718 — 1785), a dîstinguîshed antiquarian and scholar, known as much for bis bumour as for bis leaming.

1. 20. par Saliuste, Caius Sallustius Crispus (b.c. 85 — 34). Saînt-Rëars affectation to imitate tbe style of Sallust bas often been noticed.

P. 59, 1. 1, se cantonner, literally, settle bimself down, i. e. confine bis attention to.

1. 10. de Walier Scott ou de Froissart ; a scbool of writers wbo took for tbeir motto tbe words of Quintilian : scriditur ad narrandum, non ad probandum, and wbo, attempting to revive tbe style of tbe old cbroniclers, maintained tbat it is tbe duty of every bistorian to let events speak for tbemselves. — M. de Barante (178a — 1866), tbe most brilliant représentative of tbat scbool, bad publisbed in 1814, tbe first volume of bis Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de Valois, — yean Frâissart (1337 — 14 10) tbe bistorian of cbivalry, and of feudalism.

1. 16. la forêt Celtique, tbe forest of Brocéliande, wbere tbé encbanter Merlin perisbed, according to Celtic tradition. See M. de la Villemarqué*s Romains de la table ronde,

1. 20. Pierre Louis Rœderer (1754-^1835), created count of tbe Empire by Napoléon; managed to serve in succession ail the govemments wbicb ruled in France between 1789 and 1830. Mallet du Fan bas said of bim: "Il a serpente avec succès au travers des orages et des partis, se réservant toujours des expédients, quelque fût Tévénement."

Anne de Bretagne (1476 — 15 14), daugbter of Francis II., Duke of Brittany, married in 1491, to Cbarles VIII., King of France, and in 1499 to Louis XII.

1. 21. Louis XIL (1461 — 1515), King of France in 1498, at tbe deatb of Cbarles VIII.

Rœderer's work, alluded to bere by M. Sainte-Beuve, is bis Mémoire pour servir à P histoire de la société polie en France; "où,** says M. Vapereauy "l'auteur fait remonter jusqu'à la cour de Louis XII et à

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Anne de Bretagne le modèle de la polites^ Française.*' Oh Rcederer, see the Causeries du Lundis vol. Vlil.

1. 26. Combat des Trente; supposed to hâve taken place between thirty Bretons and thirty Englishmeni in 135 1, near Floermel. See M. Simëon Luce's Histoire de Bertrand Vu Guesclin et de son époque^ vol. i. p. 116.

P. 60, 1. 3. que Guillaume Tell n^a jamais existé. Jacob Grimm is no doubt the érudit hère alluded to. For this interesting question see M. Albert Rilliet's Origines de la Confédération Suisse, pp. 214 and ibUowing.

1. 4. aux heures sérieuses, when the mind is disposed to serions studies..