Chorège. See article Renan, page 16, note

Page 46. — x. Lazzis: buffooneries, jests. Word of Italian origin that has become French, and, as such, folio ws the gênerai rule for the plural of nouns.

Page 47. — 1. Un parti pris féroce: a deliberate intention of seeing the dark side of everytking.

a. Le . . . fasse : your heart is moved in spite of yourself

3. L'année terrible. Allusion to 1 870-1871, the year of the Franco- Prussian war.

Page 48. — 1. Sully-Prudhomme. A great French poet, member of the Academy, born in 1839. His best-known poems are: Les Epreuves ; Les Solitudes, Impressions de la Guerre, Les Destins, Les vaines Tendresses, La Révolte des Fleurs ; two great didactic poems, La fustice, Le Bonheur.

a. Sedaine (17 19-1797). A famous French dramatic author ; he wrote : Le Déserteur, Richard Cœur de Lion, La Reine de Golconde, Le Philosophé sans le savoir.

3. Peu d'esprit de m/)ts : he does not play on words, i.e. his wit does not consist in puns nor in play s on words.

Page 49. — z. Le fameux Nan! NanI Nan! A r an, for non = no. Allusion to the nasal pronunciation of the southern people of France.

a. Qu'ils y Tiennent 1 Let thetn corne !

3. Des . . . d'épingle : strike with a sword and not with a pin, i.e. kill me at once, ifyou like, by fair means, but don*t kill me by inches.