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1. 15. frères Deschamps: Emile and Antoine Deschamps, poets; still better known as the translators of the Romantic movement. Antoine made a translation of Dante, and Emile translated a number of English, German, and Italian poets. (1795-1871 and 1809-1869.)
Page 74. — 1. 3. Amour fléau du monde, etc. : from Don Paez, second part, line 171, Premières Poésies,
1. 4. Comme elle est belle an soir, etc. : from Don Paez, fonrth part, line I, Premières Poésies.
1. 5. vieillards décrépits, etc. : from Portia^ second part, Une 65, Premières Poésies,
1. 6. Peut-être que le senil, etc. : from Portia^ third part, line 27, Premières Poésies.
1. 16. Ulric Guttingaer : a minor poet of the Romantic school. (1785- 1866.)
Page 77. — 1. 6. Nessus was a Centaur who insulted Deîanara, the wife of Hercules, and was killed by the latter with an arrow dipped in the blood of the Lemean hydra. In revenge, he told the woman to collect the blood from his wound, and use it as a love philter; and, when she afterwards poured it on Hercules' tunic, the poison in the blood, coming from the poisoned arrow, brought about the death of the hero. So the word is used to denote a fatal present, or that from which there is no escape.
1. 30. dès le temps de Werther : Goethe's story. Die Leiden desjungen JVerikers, appeared in 1774.
Page 78. — 1. 2. Phaeton: son of Helios, the sun-god.
1. II. cette histoire: referring to the love of de Musset for George Sand.
1. 15. Confessions: referring to de Musset's Confession d'un enfant du siècle,
1. 29. SaphO : Sappho, the Grecian poet, who was one of the leaders of the iEolian school of lyric poetry. She lived in the last part of the 7th and first part of the 8th century B.c.
1. 29. quatre nuits: the poems entitled Les Nuits are a series of meditative poems in the form of dialogues between the poet and his muse on nights in May, August, October, and December.
Page 79. — 1. 4. Hamilton, Comte d*: a gentleman who followed the Stuarts to France. He wrote the Memoirs du Comte de Gr amont. (1646- 1720.)
1. 18. Rachel: an actress celebrated in tragedy. (1821-1858.)
1. 18. Pauline Garcia: a noted opera singer and actress, the sister of Malibran, the famous contralto, born 1821.
Page 80. — 1. 15. Comédie Française: same as the Théâtre Français, See note p. 33, 1. 10.
1. 30. La Revue des Deux Mondes is the most famous French review in the realm of literature and politics. It was founded in 1829.
L 31. le directeur de la Revue : M. Buloz.
Il6 NOTES.
Page 83. — 1. 2. Pellisson: see note p. 54, 1. 9.
1. 3. d^ Olivet : Pierre Joseph Thoulier, abbé d'Olivet, was a well-known literary man who made translations from the classics, wrote a grammar and the history of the Academy here referred to, and worked with zeal on the Academy dictionary. (1682- 1768.)
