le Bidole de l'étiquette, the age of formality

612. Soaxron sur le bord même, etc., Scarran upon the very edge of the couch ofltouis Quatorze, a reference to the fact that Madame de Maintenon, before becoming in secret the wife of the king, had been the wife of Paul Scarron (1610-1660), a burlesque poet.

626. Arloste, Anoato (1474-1533), author of Orîarulo FuHoso; Cervantes (1547-1616), the author of Don Quixote; and Rabelais (1495-1563), author of two satirical romances, Gargantua and Fantagruel.

629. la troisième ciyllisation, i.e., the modem coming after V époque primitive f et V époque antique (see 1. 94).

631. son alliance i9tlme et créatrice avec le beau, its close and intimate connection with the beautiful.

635. La Belle et la Bête, the familiar story of Beauty and the Beast.

644. les fresques royales de Murlllo, a reference to the fact that Murillo (1618-1682) was the Spanish court painter, les pages sacrées, the pictures on reUgious sutjects. Véronôse, celebrated Venetian painter (1528-1588).

646. deux admirables Jugements derniers, i.e., those by Michelangelo and Bubens, which are described in the next few lines.

600. Malherbe, a literary reformer, as well as a lyric poet, of whom Boileau wrote the celebrated lines, beginning Enfin, Malherbe vint . . . (1555-1628). Chapelain, author of a much heralded epic. La Fucelle, which met with such ridicule when the first part appeared, in 1656, that the publication was never completed (1595- 1674). Corneille, the first great author in the classic period of French drama (1606-1684).