Ces solitaires: the Port-Royalists

Page 29. — 1. 2. Louise Labé: la BelU Cordière, a poet of Lyons. Her father was a rope-maker, (i 526-1 566.)

1. 8. Consulat : the name given to the French goverilment from the end of the Directory in 1799 to the establishment of the Empire in 1804.

Page 30. — 1. 32. Arethuse, a nymph of Elis being pursued by the god of the river Alphaeus was changed by Diana into a spring, which dis-

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appeared in the ground, and rose again on the island of Ortygia in the harbor of Syracuse.