peut-être bien, perhaps at any rate

P. 52, 1. 2. Mathieu Jean Félicité de Montmorency-Laval {l'j^G — 1826), was minister of foreign affairs in 1821, and took a part in the congress of Verona ; became a member of the Académie Française in 1825. Was a great friend of Madame de Staël and Madame Récamier.

1. 4. Félix Julien Jean Bigot de Préameneu (1750 — 1825), distinguished as a lawyer ; took an important share in the drawing up of the Code Civil, and was minister of public worship during the empire.

1. 13. tout ce qui lui appartient de...— tout ce de bonheur^ etc. . ..çîd lui appartient, ail his proper share.

1. 1 7. se dévorer le foie, in order not toWeel the pangs of disappoîntment; a metaphorical expression borrowed from the well-known fable of Prometheus, who was supposed to have been fastened by order of Zeus on mount Caucasus, where an eagle every day devoured his liver, which was restored again during the night.

I. 31. le comte Tiepolo ; Count Dominico Tiepolo's Discorsi sulla Storia Veneta appeared in 1825,

P. 53, 1. 22. Lue de suite, read consecutively.

1. 25. Louis Simon Atiger (1772 — 1 829), one of the chief contributors to the Décade philosophique, and to the Journal de V Empire ; has also published a good édition of Molière.

1. 30. dest un gj^and bonheicr. . . que ces mystères; que here is redundant.

P. 54, 1. 5. déb7ds de V Empire Romain. The first emigrants assembled in the islands of the lagoons after the dévastation of Venetia by Alaric in 407 — 15.