k quel ûtre je vais paxleTf hmo I am entiUed to speqk

4. Point d'analyses professionnelles, etc., ^/tia is 'pjot an analytical Htudy by a professional critic nor a far-reaching eynthetic view. Clemenceau, with perf ect modesty, wants us to understand that he is speaking of art only as a layman or an amateur.

5. capables de ne pas produire, incajxible of crealing anything,

6. Copernic, Copemicus, Polish astrônonler (1473-1543). By establishing his System of the révolution of the planets and of the earth around the sim, he upset the ancient theory which mâde of the earth and man the center of the imiverse.

Page 79. 1. et jusque dans la brutalité voulue, etc., and even in ddiberate brvMUy, lookingfor the comforting return of tears.

Page 80. 1. qui vous ressemblait comme un frère, thîs quotation from Alfred de Musset's Nuit de décembre is an allusion to Ëdmond's brother, Jules,, in collaboration with whom he produced most of his Works. Jules had died in 1870.

2. salons du xviii^ siècle, theParisian parlors and drawing rooms where the élite of society and literature gathered.

3. cet inquiétant Versailles, ihai diaquieting VersatUee. The French court at Versailles had then become the center of many ill-boding and disquieting intrigues and scandais.

4. la fille de Marie-Thérèse, Queen Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793), daughter of MariorTheresa (1717-1780), empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia.

5. la Reine de France jusqu'à l'affreux couteau, Marie-Antoinette died on the guillotine, October 16, 1793.

6. Thermidor • . Brumaire, Jidy and November on the calendar of the Révolution. The 9th of Thermidor (July 27, 1794) marked the fall of Robespierre and of the Terror. The 18th of Brumaire (November 9, 1799) marked the advent of Napoléon Bonaparte's dictatorship. Bonaparte made himself ^rs^ Consul and, latw, «xv^eiot.

7. la Patrie en danger, when the European coalition attacked France in 1792, the coimtry was declared to be "in a state ci danger/' and Yolunteers flocked to its défense. In 1873, de Concourt published a drama under tiiat title.

8. une masse tumultueuse, deep dovm the danwring masses stir^ and thèse also are tndy human.

Page 81* 1. Germlnie, the heroine of de Goncourt's novel Germinie Lacerteux,

2. l'horreur de la fosse commune, the horror of the common grave, where Germinie is bûried after her death.

3. éiisa, the heroine of Edmond de Goncourt's novel la Fille Élisa (1S77).