Je me suis, etc. Eccles. ii

Page 141. — x. 0 nuit ddsastreuse ! etc. This passage is celebrated in literature.

2. Madame se meurt. These are said to be the very words with which a laquais of Madame aroused Bossuet the night of her death.

3. Saint-Cloud. Town outside of Paris, on the Seine, where the Duke of Orleans had built a palace and laid out a park.

4. la douleur, etc. See Virgil’s M Luctus ubique, pavor, et plurima mortis imago ” ( Aeneid II, 369).