que n'en ont . . : account for the négative

II. Frédéric Chopin, the Polish pianist and composer, born in

18 10 near Warsaw, died in Paris in 1849. , , Paul Huet, a landscape-painter, who enjoyed great réputation at the time.

,, 23. résolûment : it is difficult to understand why the French Academy should persist in giving a circumflex to this adverb, when they spell absolument without one.

28. cet abîme, il le franchirait : notice this use of a pronoun, when the direct object précèdes the verb, for the sakeof emphasis.

7. 9. le phénix des gendres : the metaphor is cleverly kept up

by this Word phénix.

14. s'accordent : state the mood, and account for it. , , 24. des petites gens : what is the pecuHarity oi gens ?

25. chat en poche : the English équivalent certainly belongs to the same vocabulaire.

, , 26. dans tous les sens : for this meaning of sens cf. sens dessus dessous, ' upside down. ' , , d'en connaître les sites : why not de connaître ses sites f , , 30. me permette : for the construction cf. 1. 14.

8. I. quand j'aurai : bear in mind that the future is used in

French after a conjunction of time to express something to come.

5. de tout organiser : notice that tout and rien précède the présent infinitive on which they dépend.

9. emmener, 'to take away'; amener, ' to bring. ' In the former the prefix comes from Lat. inde, in the latter from Lat. ad.

,, 19. de la plus haute volée : another expression borrowed from

the vocabulaire des petites gens.

,, 20. vos petites entrées, ' free admission.'

,, 22. courir un cerf: the old infinitive courre is also used in this transitive sensé — ' to course.' Cf. la chasse à courre, ' coursing ' ; le laisser-courre, ' the starting- place. ' The / in cerf is silent in the plural only.

24. Clisson (1336 -1407), constable of France, distinguished himself in many battles, notably at Auray and Rosebecq.

,, ,, Du Guesclin (1320-80), constable of France before Clisson,

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delivered the kingdom from the so-called great Companies, and drove the English from Normandy, Guienne, Saintonge, and Poitou.