D^un caractère à part, of a peculiar temper

1. 29. Breton de naissance. Du val was born at Rennes (L. Condate, Redones), capital of the department of Ile et Vilaine.

1. 30. se pliait malaisément, condescended with diffîculty. M. Michelet has remarked {Hist, de France, vol. ii.) that *'le génie de la Bretagne,

c'est un génie d'indomptable résistance et d'opposition intrépide, opiniâtre, aveugle."

P. 42, 1. 2. sa poussée d'hîiaginatîony his vigour of imagination.

I. 6. des hasards de sa veine ^ of the chances of his poetic vein.

1. 8. Maison à vend7'e (1800), a charming comedy, for which Dalayrac wrote the music.

Édouard en Écosse ou la nuit d^un proscrit (1802), a play in three acts, taken from the history of the Chevalier de Saint George, was forbidden by the government of Napoléon on account of its supposed political character.

1. 16. Les Marionnettes, ou un jeu de la fortune (1806), one of Pîcard's best comédies; procured for him a pension from Napoléon. Les Ricochets (1807), an excellent comedietta, notwithstanding its resemblance to les Marionnettes,

P. 43, 1. 12. un peintre de portraits de la rue Saint- Denis, a portrait painter of tradespeople and small merchants. The Rue Saint Denis in Paris corresponds very much to Cheapside or Holborn.

1,29. mon simple aperçu, my raQXQ û^^Qich.

P. 44, 1. 3. or sur de nouveaux frais, liter. with a new outlay, i. e. from a new point of view.