Garde-robe in this sense = ‘ household

30. Bouts carrés, either generally ‘ trimmings,’ or a technical term of falconry.

Notes. 553

. Le plus occupé de tous les hommes, Richelieu. . Dorilas et Handburg, transparent disguises for Varillas and

Maimbourg.

. Cydtas, Fontenelle.

. Fourrures et mortiers, the insignia of Nodlesse de Robe. . Poële. This of course, like the German Sfsée, which doubtless

suggested it, means not a stove, but a room with a stove.

. Compagnie, the Academy. | . This extract is printed exactly from contemporary editions.

It is the last which will be so given.

In the French of to-day the contraction fe. is reserved for the official title (Maître) of advocates; here of course it = Madame.

. Cremille was minister at the time.

. This admirable epigram, like the preceding, is devoted to the

luckless Nivelle de la Chaussée, the great practitioner of Comédie Larmoyante.

. It is scarcely necessary to give the obvious key to this scene

by explaining that Dorante is really in love with Araminte, and that Dubois is in his confidence.

Marianne, a poor orphan, has received a present of handsome clothes and resolves to display them in church.

. The scene passes in Louisiana. Manon is escaping from penal

servitude ; her lover, the Chevalier des Grieux, who has followed her when she was transported, has fought a duel with a kinsman of the governor because of her.

The biographers of Montesquicu do not accept this excellent and admirably told story. According to them the authorities did attempt to frighten Montesquieu, though there was no serious intention of harming him. But this does not matter.

. One of Restif’s chief oddities was his system of spelling and

word-connection. It is faithfully represented here.

. Ces jours, the Wednesdays on which the Afercuriales, from one

of which this extract is taken, were pronounced.

. This adaptation of Sophocles is a capital example of the style

noble of the eighteenth century.

. To appreciate the excellence of this it must be remembered

that it was actually written like an ordinary critique on a first night, and that the author was the person at whom the piece was aimed. The principal pAs/osophes are indicated here either by anagrams or transparent descriptions ; thus Dortidius

554 Notes.

P. 1] is Diderot ; the Prophète de Bühmischbroda refers to a jex d'esprit of Grimm's, etc.

864.157. // is Rivarol himself; the reporter of the words is Chénedollé.

389. 11. Marcellus was not only a Royalist minister, but noteworthy for a kind of romanticism.

394. 28. Vieux poëte grec. This refers to the last stage of the ancient and modern quarrel, of which a specimen has been given p.