sans trêve, without relaxation

L 15. Une manquait jçimais à rien, he wa^ never behind-hand in anything.

1. 16. il ne se plaisait pas éjgalement à tout, he did not enjoy in an equal degree ail his occupations.

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p. 10, L I. Montpellier (L. mons Fuellarum, mons Pessuldnus), a fine town in the south of France, capital of the department of Hérault.

1. 2, PifUmdance, Under the ancien r^me, theyatiousg/n/ralùéf or financial departments into which France was divided were administered by a magistrate named intendant who acted as the direct représentative of the royal will. The intendants, established by Richelieu (1628), and suppressed in 1648, were re-establîshed in 1654. ^^ ^^ time of the Révolution of 1789, France was divided into thirty-two intendances, (See M. Lalanne*s Dictionnaire de thistoire de France^ M. Chéruel's Dictionnaire historique^ and M. de Tocqueville's France hefore the Révolution, )

1. 3. Languedoc (i.e. country where the langue d'oc is spoken) was, next to Guyenne, the largest province in France. Capital : Toulouse (L. Tolosa),

Dauphini, a province in the S. E. of France, inhabited formerly by the Vocontiif the Allohroges^ the Segalaum and the TVicastinû Capital : Grenoble (L. Gratianopolis),

L 4* Tbumon (L. Tomomagensis vicus)^ a town in the department of Ardêche.

les pères de P Oratoire, The French Oratory was founded in 161 1 by Pierre de Bërulle (1574 — 1629).

I. 5. Théorique,,. philosophie, Names given to the two highest classes in the French schools. The rhetoricians dévote much of their time to original composition both in prose and in poetry ; the philosophers study metaphysics and moral philosophy.

l. 1 1. de seconde et de troisième^ classe is hère understood.