XVI. SOUVENT LE MALHEUREUX SOURIT.... - XVII. JE T'INDIQUE LE FRUIT....

L. 3. L'Allobroge, the country of the Allobroges, now Savoy.

This fragment Becq de Fouquières thought was meant as part of the Art d'aimer, but G. de Chénier says that it is, in the MS., marked with the sign El. (elegy).

L. 6. qui ne font qu'un. These words are struck out in the MS. No doubt Chénier thought the phrase too hackneyed.

L. 14. infidèles. Not to be trusted, treacherous, perfidious, as in this line: 'Je n'ai que trop connu leurs larmes infidèles,' Voltaire, Orph. III. i.