Qui portaient loin : which had a wide range

10. " Enfin Francisque Tint." Allusion to the famous Une in Boileau'9 Art Poétique: " Enfin Malherbe vint et le premier en France," etc.

11. About. Edmond About, born in 1828, is one of the best-known writers of our time, if not one of the greatest. He published his first novel in the Revue des Deux Mondes, Tolla Feraldi, soon followed by Mariages de Paris and Le Roi des Montagnes. His three short fantastic taies, V Homme à P Oreille Cassée, Le Nez d J un Notaire, Le Cas de M. Guéri n, made him very popular. He was decorated with the Cross of the Légion of Honor in 1868, and elected a member of the French Academy in 1884. He died soon afterwards, in 1885.