une vicomtesse de Fourchamps, see page 118, note

Page 127. 1. une fumée d'ivresse, a fit of madness,

Page 128. 1. pierrot, aparrow.

Page 129. 1. catégoriser, dassify, a neologism for the correct cUissifier.

Page 133. 1. sans avoir pu trouver le joint, withoitt having been ahle to find the way.

2. Socrate, Socrates (468-399 ? B. C), the Greek philosopher sentenced to die by drinking the hemlock. Plato in his "Phaedo" has kept for us the conversations Socrates held with his friends on the immortality of the soûl, before he died.

3. Une démonstration de r&étoriqiie, a rhetorical argument or debcUe,

4. qui faisaient plus d'état, who paid more aitention to, cared more aboiU,

Page 134. 1. Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860).