Émeraude, Esmeralda or Emerald (on account of the color

3. vaille, subj. of valoir; the subjunctive is due to the preceding négative.

Page 54. — i. Théramène, a character in Racine's "Phêdre*\ This celebrated passage con tains nearly 100 lines.

2. Grandeur et décadence, an allusion to a celebrated work by Montesquieu (1689-1755) entitled *^ Considérations sur la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence^'*.

Page 56. — i. part d'action dans, much to do with.

Page 56« — i. le banc d'honneur stood directly in front of the master's desk; hence in the lowest part of the room. The *^banc iP honneur** no longer exists in French schools.