à grands traits ; à=avec, in a bold manner

P. 34, 1. 8. les ejnbrasser avec développeuient, to grasp and develop them.

P. 35, 1. I. Maximilien de Béthune, dtic de Sully (1560 — 1641), the able, intelligent, honest and patriotic minister of Henry IV.

François Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois (1639 — 1691), one of the cabinet-ministers who took the most important part in the measures which distinguished the reign of Louis XIV. ; '*un de ces hommes," says M. Bouillet, *' dont on est forcé d'admirer les talents, mais dont on ne saurait aimer la personne. "

1. 3. V homme de ses débuts, the man such as he had exhibited himself in his earliest performances.

1. 16. qui renti^e tout à fait dans la curiosité, which belongs entirely to the enquiring turn of mind. Curiosité here = penchant à voir et à savoir." (Littré.)

Pline V ancien, Pliny the Elder. Caius Plinitis Secundus (23 — 79}

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excels in hîs descriptions of nature, and bas often been compared in that respect to Buffon.

1. 27. Jardiit des Plantes de Paris. This useful establishment, founded for the teaching of natural history in ail its branches, was created in 1626 by Louis XIII. at the urgent request of his physicians Hérouard and Guy la Brosse.

1. 28. Poméranie^ a province of Prussia, the capital of which is Stettin. The name Po77ierania is derived from Slavonic Pomarski= near the sea.

1. 30. la Malmaison f an estate near Ruel in the environs of Versailles. The empress Joséphine (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, b. 1763) died there in 1814.

P. 36, 1. 5. Pûsen, a toM^n in Polish Prussia, occupied by the French in 1806.

1. 6. frappé dans ses biens ^ liter. struck in his property, i. e. whose property had been confiscated.