usa beaucoup de, made much use of

P. 63, 1. 2. séances délicates, sittings where delicacy of treatment was required.

1. 4. la part de V homme de bien... V absence de V homme de lettres.

Madame.de Staël says of M. Mathieu de Montmorency, persecuted by Napoléon : "à moins de vouloir exiler les saints, il me semblait impossible de s'attaquer à un tel homme." [Dix Années d'exil.)

1. 5. Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763 — 1845), as a statesman, he was the éloquent and persevering champion of true liberalism against coups d'état on the one side, and revolutionary measures on the other. As a lecturer on metaphysics, he dealt a fatal blow at the théories of Hume revived in France by Condillac.

1. 8. prix de vertu; thèse prizes had been founded in 1783 by M. de Montyon (Antoine Jean Baptiste Robert Auger, 1733 — 1820), and abolished by the National Convention.

1. 18. Pierre Simon^ marquis de Laplace (1749 — 1827), one of the most celebrated of modem astronomers. **I1 aurait achevé la science du ciel, si cette science pouvait être achevée." (Fourier.)

The Mécanique céleste (*'son chef-d'œuvre"), was published between 1799 and 1825, in five quarto volumes.