canons à yapeur, an imaginary invention

Page 17. — I. moulées en bâtarde, rounded and sloping.

Page 18. — I. The idea of having a man change places with his servant in order the better to observe the lady whom he expects to marry seems to corne from the entertaining comedy by Marivaux, Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard (1730) ; there, however, the idea is more fully developed, for the lady also changes places with her maid, and in spite of thèse multiple

disguises, the right persons manage ta fall in love with each other. Musset's style in his comédies has often been com pared to that of Marivaux, which is graceful and subtle, but sometimes affected.

Page 30. — I. dire, to think,