en passant, by the way

34. 6. lui survivent : note that this verb requires an indir. obj.

(dat.) : 'survivre à . .'

9. This is only partly true now ; the great composera of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries — Bach, Gluck, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and raany others — still hold their own.

13. opéras bouffons : the modem expression is 'opéras bouffes' (not 'bouffons').

neveux : lit. nephews ; hère, in the plural, descendants, posterity.