j^î/^j" /r^^, without relaxation

1. 15. il ne manquait jamais à rien, he was never behind-hand in anything.

1. 16. il ne se plaisait pas également à tout, he did not enjoy in an equal degree ail his occupations.

NOTES

P. 10, 1. I. Mo7itpellier (L. mons Fuellarum, mons Pessulanus), a fine town in the south of France, capital of the department of Hérault.

1. 2. V intendance, Under the ancien régime, the varions généralités or financial departments into which France was divided were administered by a magistrate named inte^tdant who acted as the direct représentative of the royal will. The intendants , established by Richelieu (1628), and suppressed in 1648, were re-established in 1654. the time of the Révolution of 1789, France vi^as divided into thirty-two intendances. (See M. Lalanne's Dictionnaire de Vhistoire de France^ M. Chéruel's Dictio7tnaire historique, and M. de Tocqueville's France before the Révolution. )

1. 3. Languedoc (i.e. country where the langue d^oc is spoken) was, next to Guyenne, the largest province in France. Capital : Toulouse (L. Tolosa).

Daiiphiné, a province in the S.E. of France, inhabited formerly by the Vocontii, the Allobi-oges, the Segalauni and the Tricastini. Capital : Grenoble (L. Gratianopolis).

1. 4. Toîirnon (L. Torfio?nagensis vicus), a town in the department of Ardêche.

les pères de P Oratoire. The French Oratory was founded in 161 r by Pierre de Bérulle (1574 — 1629).

1. 5. rhétorique.. philosophie. Names given to the two highest classes in the French schools. The rhetoricians dévote much of their time to original composition both in prose and in poetry ; the philosophers study metaphysics and moral philosophy.

I. II. de seconde et de troisième^ classe is here understood.