en moins d'un instant : cf. note on p

30. il n'est rien que nous ne fassions : the subjunctive must

be used in an adjectival clause depending on a négative statement, and when such an adjectival clause is itself nega tive, pas is omitted.

22. 17. en l'air : cf. en V absence de, en Van, en Vho?i7ieur de.

20. aux Tuileries : this palace begun under Catherine of Medici

in 1564 by Philibert Delorme, and completed under Louis

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XIV., was burnt by the Communists in 1871. The site is now occupied by a public garden.

22. 21. Chantilly, about twenty-five miles north of Paris. The

magnificent castle and park, which formerly belonged to the princes of Condé, were bequeathed in 1830 to the Duke of Aumale, who died in May 1897, and left them to the Institute.