liaison, friendly intercourse

1. 4. à V Institut ; name given to the ensemble of the five académies : Acadéînie Française {io\màç:àLVSi 1635), — Académie des Inscriptions et belles lettres (1663), — Acadé7Jiie des sciences (1666), — Académie des beaux arts (1667 — 167 1, 1672), — Académie des sciences morales et politiques ( r 794 and 1832).

1. 9. des veines et des accès, outbursts and fits. 1. 10. V industrie, a mercantile spirit.

1. 15. avant la brouille, allusion to Duval's quarrel with Picard, at whose recommendation he had been named manager of the Odéon théâtre in Paris ; this estrangement was fortunately of short duration.

avant V esprit de parti, allusion to Roger's adoption of royalist principes after having accepted office under the empire.

1. 16. Pierre Édouard Lemontey (1762 — 1826). His best work is the M. D. 6

Essai sur V établissement monarchique de Louis XIV, which gives an unfavourable appréciation of the grand monarque.

1. 25. Shakespeare amoîtretcx, as the Biographie Universelle calls it, was brought ont in 1806.

1. 30. Monsieur Musard (1803), an amiising one-act comedy. Musard, an idler, verb muser ; comp. the English to muse,

1. 35. le Mariage clandestin, an adaptation of Garrick's well known play. Le Trésor, a five-act comedy, performed in 1804.

P. 38, 1. 7. Avez vous tué ce ténia allusion to the illness from which M. Daru was suffering.