le père nourricier ^ the foster-father

1. 20. d'une main fatiguée de vingt-sept heures de...\he first de stands for avec, the second îox par, the third is the genitive.

1. 29. qu^on suppose à son front ; supposer is here ingeniously taken as if derived from super ponere ; lui en former =■ formel^ pour lui une couronne d'elle (i.e. de cette sérénité)', or it may be explained thus — qu^on suppose {appartenir) à son front,

45> 3« théâtre Louvois, founded in 1793, by Mademoiselle Montansier; it was handed over to the opéra in 1794, and in 1804 took the name oî théâtre de Vimpératrice.

1. 32. Guatimozin, ox rather Quauhtemotzin. The exact terms of the rebuke are, "Do you think I, then, am taking my pleasure in my bath?" See Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, m. 209.

P. 46, 1. 2. Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert (1751 — 1780), a distinguished French poet, but whose talent has been too much praised by some and depreciated by others. His satires le Dix-huitième siècle and mon apologie brought down upon him the wrath of the Encyclopedist school.

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Thovias Chatterton (1752 — 1770), the well-known author of the poems ascribed to a supposed mediaeval poet named Rowley.

1. 7. capîicin. The order of mendicant friars, known by the name of Capuchi7ts^ was estabhshed in 1525.

1. 8. trappiste. The abbey of La Trappe, belonging to the Cistercian order, and founded in 1 140, by Rotrou, count of Terche, near Mortagne, department of Orne, was reformed in 1662, by the celebrated abbé de Rancé. They took the vow of perpétuai silence.

1. 28. Le Génie du Christiajiisme. François René, Viscount de Châteaubriand (1768 — 1848). His character présents a singular mixture of vanity, of scepticism and of enthusiasm. Without any well-defined line of conduct, having no settled principle to direct him in his course, he has still enjoyed very great influence. The Génie du Christianisme was designed to be a new apologetical exposition of Christianity, but it must rather be considered as a modem a^^s poetica, an ip^ orovement upon Horace and Boileau.

1. 29. qui avait fait époque^ which had inaugurated . ii epoch. The Génie du Christiartisme appeared in 1801, and was dedicated to Napoléon who had signed the Concordat (September, 1801) with the Pope.

1. 30. les prix décemtaux. Napoléon had instituted in 18 10 a séries of prizes destined to reward the chef s-d"* œuvre in every branch of literature, art and science produced during the previous ten years. On ail this see M. Sainte-Beuve's Châteaubriand et son groupe littéraire^ Lectures