Un légiste de Noyon. Calvin

31. cette petite France de Liège. The Walloon dialect of French is spoken here, while to the north and east Flemish and German are spoken.

75. — 9. les Montfort. Simon IV, comte de Montfort, was the leader of the Albigensian crusade. His son Simon went on an expedition to the Holy Land in 1240. This member of the family went over to the service of England, where his family had fiefs; he became Seneschal and introduced a number of reforms, among them permission that the representatives of the communes should sit in Parliament; he died in 1265. . .

76. — 7. Nous l'avons vu en Juillet. The events of the Revolution of 1830 (v^^hen the Bourbon Charles X was overthrov^^n and Louis-Philippe became king) w^ere still fresh in Michelet's mind. He wrote this portion of the History in

77. 3. — coopérant. No diaeresis is necessary, because 00 is never a diphthong in French as it is in English.

8. II bolt la vie brute. Note Michelet's fondness for such figures, compare 11 y a du vin dans le cœur (in his description of Picardy, p. 74, 1. 25).

13. Miranturque novas frondes et non sua poma. Virgil, Georgics II, 82.

23. sont-elles. Inversion is permissible in French when certain words precede the verb. In the present instance a comparative adjective precedes; more usually the inversion occurs when certain adverbs stand before the verb (ici, là, à peine, aussi, encore, peut-être, etc.).

79. — 27. Dans chaque segment, etc. Michelet quotes from a memoir read at the Academy of Sciences by the noted physician Antoine-Louis Dugès (i 797-1838).