par son nom, simply, without prefixlag any title

3. les Fanconnets, Jean Fauconnet had bid in several différent taxes, for the period 1680 to 1687, and had Consolidated them into one gênerai farm.

4. brelans, the passion for gambling increased rapidly in France during the last years of the seventeenth century. It culminated in the disasters of Law's Mississippi Scheme.

Page 48* — i. prise, allusion to the fortunes gained by privateering.

2. Zénobie, Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, who was conquered by Aurelian in 272. This is one of the finest passages in La Bruyère.

Page 49. — i. Inibajï^ Lebanon»

2. les Phidias et les Zeuzis, Phidias (496-431 B. C), celebrated Greek sculptor, and Zeuxis (last half of the fifth century B. C), a Greek painter.