Ou . . • VU : or directly inferred from what he had seen

4. La Bruyère. A famous moralist of the seventeenth century, the author of Les Caractères. The perfection of his style and the truth of his observations hâve made him one of the greatest French psychologists, and the finest pain ter of the customs of his time.

5. Il . . . l'affût : he is always on the look-out. Être à F affût is an expression borrowed from the hunt. Affût is the place where the h un ter h ides in, waiting for the game.

Page 42. — 1. Quelques-uns des plus unis : some of the simples^ least eomplicated.