attendue agrees with douceur alone. Cf. page 142, note

5. caract&re, sign. The etymological meaning of the word, and explained by marque in the line following.

Page 173 . — 1. et les grands, etc. Cf. La Bruy&re, “Du Souverain ou de la Republique,” No. 16. •

2. Reconnaissez . . . cours. One of the finest periods in the Oration. Bossuet could speak from the results of his own experience with Conde.

3. Le premier argent, etc. To indemnify him for the loss of the f territory of Conde, surrendered to France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees, Spain paid over to the prince some three million francs.