Accordé la pipe. .See Whitney's Grammar, 56, a

85. — 22. la Trappe, celebrated monastery in the department of the f )rne, whose monks " gardaient un silence perpétuel ". — 23. lui a fait voir trente-six chandelles, see stars, as from a blow. ' Voir mille chandelles ' appears to be the more usual expression, although the numher thirty-six is found also in le Mariage d'Olympe (II, 14) : " Je ne sais pas combien [de chandelles] il y en a ; mais tout à l'heure Irma [who has been drinking] en verra trente-six."

80. — 9. Pourquoi noire? i.e. why not just 'bête' in the sensé of slupidl — 21. don quichottisme, nseless chivalrous obstinacy. From Don Quijote (cf. ' voltairien ', 83, 15), hero of Cervantes' famous romance, who had a mania for righting real or imaginary wrongs, at any cost.

88- — I. à la rescousse, or ' à la recousse.' Augier prefers the first (cf. la Contagion^ IV, 3). — 23. Gehlen, Adolphe Ferdinand, German chemist ( 1 775-1815), "mourut empoisonné par du gaz hydrogène arséniqué [arsenetted hydrogen] en faisant des expériences dans son laboratoire " (Larousse). — 24. Boullay, Pierre- François-Guillaume, famous French pharmacist and chemist, born in 1777' According to Larousse lie was the first to transform alcohol into ether by means of phosphoric acid, and the first to form " éther arséniqué". There is, liowever, no mention in that article of his being burned by ether. — 25. Hennel " lived in London . . . He was blown to pièces in 1842 by the explosion of a large quantity of fulminating mercury which he had prepared for the military use of the East India Company " (See Hermann Kopp, Geschichte der C hernie, IV, 1847, p. 323, note).