romançai love-song

3. Miêiis, Mieris, the name of a family of Dutch painters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Musset does not distinguish between Dutch and Flemish, using Flamand to cover both. So in // ne faut jurer de rien, act III, scène iii, he thus expresses his admiration for the women of HoUand: " Quelles Vénus que ces Flamandes ! " The artists of the Dutch school are characterized by perfection of finish rather than by imagination, and they excel in scènes of domestic life like the one described in this speech. The description corresponds more or less closely to several pictures in the Louvre, which are not by Mieris, however, and which do not bear the title coup de Vétrier,

4. coup de rétrier, stirrup-cup, the parting cup drunk by a traveller on horseback. Distinguish, however, coup and coupe.

Page 15. — I. protège. Musset wrote protège, for until a subséquent ruling bythe Académie Française, è was not written before g,

2. gros 8011, a large copper coin, really worth two sous, or ten centimes (two cents).