Une cathédrale désaffectée : an abandoned cathedral

5. Berthelot. An eminent French chemist, friend of Renan and Prof essor at the Collège de France. From an early âge, he made a spécial study of acids and fermentation. His labors to reproduce the substances which enter into the composition of organic bodies, besides opening up a new field of research, hâve directly benefited more than one industry. In December, 1886, he became Minister of Public Instruction.

Page 10. — 1. Amiel. Born at Geneva, 1821 ; he traveled through Italy, studied at Berlin. In 1849, ne was appointed professor of aesthetics and of French literature at the Academy of Geneva. He died in 18S1. His wide culture, his critical power, and his profound but melancholy spéculations would probably hâve remained unknown to the outside world had not a sélection been published af ter his death from his Journal Intime.

a. Avec . . . femme : with a womans shifting logic.

3. Et . . . Dieu : and with endearing fillips at God. Thèse expressions are scarcely translatable; they show the "virtuosité" of the author*s style, and are one of his spécial charms.