L'. de Meaûx = Vévêque de Meaux^ Bossuet

4. le P. Bourdaloue, Louis Bourdaloue (1632-1704), Jesuit, and noted pulpit orator.

Des Esprits Forts A chapter directed against religions sceptics, which contains many traces of Descartes', Pascal's and Bossuet's influence.

Page 122. — 1,2. Yyette . . . Lignon, the former is the name of a stream in the department of Seine-et-Oise. The latter is probably the river of Forez (department of Loire) which had been made famous by D'Urfé's pastoral romance of Astrée (1610-1626). — In this paragraph we fînd a description of Condë's estate at Chantilly, which its last owner, the Duc d'Aumale, presented to the Institute of France, before his death.

3. canal, Condé had tumed two streams at Chantilly into one bed.

4. IX&utre, Andr/ le Nôtre (161 3-1 700), the celebrated landscape gardener, who designed the Versailles parks and the Kensington Gardens in London.

Page 123. — I. dire, this Caractère goes on to discusà the insignificance of man when compared to the vastness of the universe.