I)e Visé. See note to p

1. 51. Grimarest. See note to p. 40, 1. 39. Pagk 51. 1. 8. En-cas-de-nnit : somc food was aiways ready for the kiiig to take at any tinic of tlie night, ' in case of need ' ; hcnce the term was appiicd to tlie cvening :upper generally.

i. 12. Vawvenargues. See note to p. 3, I. 4.

1. 15. // aura pris Vidée de ce dialogue . . . i.c. ' He must hâve taken the idea of this dialogue ' : tho future perfcct expresses in such cases probability.

1. 28. Baron. See note to p. ^o, 1. 35. Page 53. 1. i. Laforest. See p. 50, I. 2.

1. 32. Harlay de Champi'alon (1625-95), Archbishop of Paris from 1671 till his dcath. A flatterer of Louis XIV, whom he secretly inarried to Madame de Maintenon, he was fiercely intolérant towards Jansenists and , Protestants, and had a large share in the Revocation of the ' Edit de Nantes.'

1. 38. Saint-Simon See note to p. 21, 1. 7. Page 54. 1. r 5. Le Tellier ( 1 64 3-1 7 1 9), the king's confessor from 1709. A member of the Society of Jésus, devoted to his order. he instigated the destruction of Port Royal and hastened the persécutions against the Protestants. Bossuet, like Le Tellier, pronounced on Molière an unmerciful oration.

1. 20. Madame Necker, the wife of the famous statesman, minister of Louis XVL Thomas (1732-85) was one of the writers who frequented her 'salon,' with BufFon, Suard, ALarmontel, Diderot, D'Alembert, La Harpe, &c.

1. 21. Ginguené (i 748-1816), a French writer, friend of Marmontel, La Harpe, Chamfort, &c. His chief work is an Histoire littéraire d'Italie. In 1791 he published a pamphlet entitled De l'autorité de Rabelais dans la Rét'olution présente, mainly made up of sélections from the work of Rabelais himself.