Et coiffé d'' un veloitr s = avec tm velours

1. 30. Que ceint en auréole = comme une ai-iréole, — un vieux galon fripé, an old pièce of tarnished lace.

P. 2 7, 1. 8. le svelte et le découpé, the freedom and picturesqueness. — Svelte, from the Ital. svelto, light. — Découpé, liter. eut out, i. e. the neatly defined features.

1. 10. il ne serre d^ assez près, he does not render with sufficient accuracy,

P. 28, 1. I. la suite, evenness of style. des parties de force.., i.e. pleines de force.

1. 5. Louis Benoit Picard (1769— 1828), has written upwards of eighty plays, and excels chiefly in turning into ridicule the pretensions of the bourgeoisie, His style is pre-eminently witty and animated.

1. 7. Vincent Campenon (1772— 1843), author of several estimable poems, wrote also a translation of Horace, and has left some interesting memoirs on Delille.

François Roger (1776— 1842), known by a few agreeable comédies, the best of which, D Avocat, is imitated from Goldoni.

Alexandre Dîtval-Pineu {\']6'j — 1842) ; out of his fifty plays (come

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dies, librettioî opéras, etc.) the most remarkable are Le Tyran domestique (1805) and La Fille d'honneur (1819).

The five littérateurs just named were ail members of the Académie Française,

\. Il, d'tm visage tranqîdlle= avec un visage tranquille,

P. 29, 1. 32. qid s'effleurent^ which can be skimmed over.

P. 30, 1. 12. V immortelle campagne de 1805, against the Austro- Russian army.

1. 15. AusterlitZy a town in Moravia. — The battle of Austerlitz took place December 2, 1805.

1. 17. Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Duke de Feltre (1765 — 18 18) was made minister of war in 1809. Homme de cabinet plutôt que guerrier." (Bouillét.)

P. 31, 1. I. Fresbou7'g {L. Foso7tium, Fisonium, and in médise val L. Brecislahtrgitmi or Lstropolis)^ v\^as the ancient capital of Hungary, and the seat of its diet. The treaty of Presburg vi^as the resuit of the battle of Austerlitz.

1. 1 9. quand il y avait lieu, v^hen circumstances required it.

1. 22. Beidin^ occupied by the French after the battle of Jena.

1. 23. Vienne Vindobona, FlavianaCasti^a^yuHobona). Napoléon occupied it in 1805.

1. 28. Kœnigsberg, a city in Prussia ; taken in 1807 by the French under Marshal Soult.

1. 29. Tilsitty a city in Prussia, on the Niémen and the Tilse. The treaty alluded to was, as a matter of fact, the partition of Europe between France and Russia.

1. 30. yoscph yérôme Siméon (1749 — 1842), a distinguished lawyer and statesman, firmly attached to the principles of constitutional freedom.

1. 31. royaume de Westphalie. Formed in 1807 by Napoléon for his brother Jérôme (1784 — 1860); occupied by the Prussians after the battle of Leipzig (181 3).

P. 32, 1. 6. Frfu7't (L. Frfordia) in Saxony. A celebrated congress took place there between Napoléon, the emperor of Russia, and ail the German princes except the emperor of Austria and the king of Prussia (1808).

1. 7. Napoléon held a congress at Dresden in 1812 ; and defeated there on the 26th and 2 7th of August, 1813, the combined armies of Austria, Prussia and Russia.

1. 13. ' si athlétique qu^ il fût—quHl pût être^ how athletic soever he might be.

1. 28. un degré (T initiative, a certain degree of spontaneous action.

P. 33, 1. I. dans cet 07'dre de vues, in that sphère of ideas. The spirit of method, of organisation, of administration was quite equal in Cuvier to his scientific genius.

1. 4. Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (1790 — 1869) shares with M. Victor Hugo the honour of having thrown new life into French poetry, His principal works are the Méditations poétiques (1820), the Nouvelles méditations (1823), the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (1829), Jocelyn (1835).

1. 24. Bernard le Bouvier de Fontenelle (1657 — 1757) distinguished himself in almost every branch of Hterature. As a philosopher he deserves the greatest praise, and the éloges he pronounced on varions scientific men, in his capacity of secrétaire perpétuel de V Académie des sciences are excellent.

1. 25. Marc René Le Voyer d^ Argenson (1652 — 1721) succeeded La Reynie as lieutenant of Police ; was made Keeper of the Seals in 1718,during d'Aguesseau's first exile.

1. 28. lieutenajit de Police, the magistrate appointed as head of the Paris police ; the first was La Reynie (1667); Fontenelle's description, alluded to above, of the duties belonging to the lieutenant de police, has often been quoted as a model of accuracy and style.