Un homme sans attache de foyer, a man tiedtono home

Page 60. 1. ce plus petit dont, au dire du fabuliste, etc., an allusion to La Fontaine's fable, "The Lion and the Rat," where the Lion needs the rat ïn order to escape from the trap into which he fell and which the

rat easily cuts with ils teeth. Hence La Fontaine's conclusion: **0n a souvent besoin d*uh plus petit que soi" {**One often sorely needs somebody smaUer than oneself*).