Carmélites: CarmetUe nuns

21. — 13. Bibliothèque. The library par excellence of Paris is the Bibliothèque Nationale, the largest collection in the world.

22. — 25. Port-Royal : an austerely rehgious association of the seventeenth century. The messieurs de Port-Royal were celebrated as educators. In their writings they cultivated a severe simphcity of style.

22. — 28. écrivains de nos jours. The excesses of the romanticists, their truculent color, bold innovations, and intemperate style, are hère alluded to. The styles of Renan and of Victor Hugo are antipodal.

23. — 10. bons auteurs. Renan has in mind the writers of the classic school, especially those of the seventeenth century.

24. — 10. ironie : one of the most disconcerting qualities of Renan's style to the very last.

25. — 4. GhazLr: a mountain village, a few miles N.W. of Beirut. Cf. note p. 40, line 8.

25. — 25. Histoire littéraire de la France: a very voluminous work treating the history of mediœval French literature. It was begun by the Bénédictines, the leamed monastic order, and continued by the Académie des Inscriptions, Its publication, begun in 1733, still continues.

26. — 6. Vexin: an ancient division of France, in Normandy and Ile de France.

2Q» — 11. Thomas à Kempis: a Gennan monk of the fifteenth century, nsually accepted as the author of the most celebrated of devotional books, The Imitation of Christ.

2Q» — 12. In angello, cum libello : (Latin) in a corner with a bock.

2S» — 21. mademoiselle UUiac-Trémadeure. This lady edited the Journal des jeunes personnes and wrote during more than forty years highly respectable and edifying books for the young.

27* — 2. ses lettres. They may be found in Lettres Intimes (Hachette).

27* — 21. la malignité: mischievous raillery or bantering.