plein et puissant. Il avait l'élocution nette, franche et pourtant polie. C'était une sorte de Raynouard, me dit-on, pour la vigueur et la simplicité, mais plus distingué et plus étendu, qui avait connu les cours et les camps, et qui avait participé 5 aux plus grandes affaires. On sentait l'homme qui, en tout, allait au fait, qui savait le prix d'un instant, qui dans sa vie avait beaucoup ordonné et beaucoup obéi: la bonté qui s'y mêlait dans les relations habituelles en avait plus de valeur. Sa capacité de travail, sa facilité prodigieuse à de grands 10 emplois, resteront mémorables et seront toujours citées comme type dans l'espèce, à la faveur du cadre historique lumineux où elles se sont produites et d'où elles provoquent l'étonnement. Deux qualifications distinctes demeurent attachées à son nom et le définissent dans sa double carrière : 15 Daru, c'est l'historien de Venise et l'administrateur de la Grande-Armée. NOTES. NOTICE SUR M. SAINTE-BEUVE. P. 5, 1. 7. le Globe, a newspaper founded in 1824 by MM. Pierre Leroux and Dubois. 1. 12. 1845. la Revue de Paris, founded in 1829 by M. Véron, lasted till 1. 18. Joachim Du Bellay (1524-1560). M. Vapereau says of the Illustration that it is remarquable par le style et la nouveauté, sinon par l'entière justesse des idées. 1. 25. The Revolution of July, 1830, which ended in the abdication of Charles X. and the election of Louis Philippe to the French throne. 1. 26. de l'école Saint-Simonienne; the Globe was purchased in 1831 by MM. Michel Chevalier, Carnot, Barrault and Duveyrier. P. 6, 1. 1. Armand Carrel (1800-1836). "The Junius of the French press," as M. Sainte-Beuve calls him, carried on in the National newspaper a steady opposition to Louis Philippe's government. 1. 2. François Buloz (1803–1877) became proprietor of the Revue des Deux Mondes in 1831, and raised it to its position as one of the leading European periodicals. 1. 17. Bibliothèque Mazarine, founded in 1643 by Cardinal Maza. rin. The first librarian was Gabriel Naudé (1600-1653). Casimir Delavigne (1793-1843) equally distinguished as a lyric and a dramatic poet. Principal tragedies: Les Vêpres Siciliennes (1819), Marino Faliero (1829), Louis XI (1832), Les Enfants d'Édouard (1833). 1. 19. Victor Marie Hugo (1802- ), the greatest of modern French lyric poets. Les Odes et Ballades (1822, 1826), Les Feuilles d'au tomne (1831), Les Chants du Crépuscule (1835), Les Voix intérieures (1837), Les Rayons et les Ombres (1840). P. 7, 1. 11. Collège de France founded in 1529 by Francis I. 1. 17. le Constitutionnel. This newspaper originally established as the organ of the liberal and anticlerical opposition became, in 1848, under the management of Dr Véron, the staunch champion of Bonapartism. 1. 18. le Moniteur, founded November 24th, 1789, was till January 1, 1869, the official journal of the French government. Le Temps has always been one of the most distinguished organs of the liberal party in France. Founded by M. Coste in 1829, revived in 1849 after an interruption of eight years, by M. Durrieu, and now conducted by M. Nefftzer. 1. 25. On a su gré, persons have felt thankful (gré, O. F. gred, from the L. gratum). 1. 27. Jean François de la Harpe (1739—1803). His Lycée ou cours de littérature is excellent so far as the appreciation of modern writers is concerned. M. DARU. P. 9, 1. 3. Jean Pons Guillaume Viennet (1777-1868), a very prolific but very indifferent writer, liberal in politics, and a staunch classique in literature. He said of himself that he had contrived to reach the highest literary and political distinctions by dint of unpopularity. His best works are his epistles and satires, published at various epochs between 1815 and 1830. Was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1830. 1. 15. il ne manquait jamais à rien, he was never behind-hand in anything. 1. 16. il ne se plaisait pas également à tout, he did not enjoy in an equal degree all his occupations. P. 10, L. 1. Montpellier (L. mons Puellarum, mons Pessulanus), a fine town in the south of France, capital of the department of Hérault. 1. 2. l'intendance. Under the ancien régime, the various généralités or financial departments into which France was divided were administered by a magistrate named intendant who acted as the direct representative of the royal will. The intendants, established by Richelieu (1628), and suppressed in 1648, were re-established in 1654. At the time of the Revolution of 1789, France was divided into thirty-two intendances. (See M. Lalanne's Dictionnaire de l'histoire de France, M. Chéruel's Dictionnaire historique, and M. de Tocqueville's France before the Revolution.) 1. 3. Languedoc (i. e. country where the langue d'oc is spoken) was, next to Guyenne, the largest province in France. Capital: Toulouse (L. Tolosa). Dauphiné, a province in the S. E. of France, inhabited formerly by the Vocontii, the Allobroges, the Segalauni and the Tricastini. Capital: Grenoble (L. Gratianopolis). 1. 4. Tournon (L. Tornomagensis vicus), a town in the department of Ardêche. les pères de l'Oratoire. The French Oratory was founded in 1611 by Pierre de Bérulle (1574-1629). 1. 5. rhétorique...philosophie. Names given to the two highest classes in the French schools. The rhetoricians devote much of their time to original composition both in prose and in poetry; the philosophers study metaphysics and moral philosophy. 1. II. de seconde et de troisième, classe is here understood. 1.21. susceptibilité, irritability. dans un sens d'ornement, with a view to polish...perfectionnement, improvement. 1. 25. Denis Fabre, one of the deputies to the National Convention, member for the department of Hérault. 1. 26. Nougarède, a littérateur of very little merit, is not even mentioned in the Biographie universelle. P. II, 1. 1. garde-côtes. M. Littré (see Dictionary, s. v. garde) thinks that the plural of this compound substantive, and likewise of garde-note, should be spelt as it is here. The Académie Française on the contrary gives both gardes-côtes and gardes-notes. 1. 2. commissaire des guerres, victualling-commissioner. 1.5. Gabriel Marie de Talleyrand, comte de Périgord (1726—1795). 1. 7. suppression des Parlements. The French parliaments were suppressed by decree dated November 7, 1790. The crisis alluded to here is the one caused by the financial measures which Louis XVI. adopted at the suggestion of the minister Loménie de Brienne (1727— 1794). lui reconnut=reconnut en lui. 1. 8. une mesure, a discretion. 1. II. le sérieux de direction=la direction sérieuse, the thoughtful turn of mind. 1. 12. le sens, the (common) sense. 1. 13. Almanachs des Muses. The complete collection of the Almanachs des Muses (1764-1833) forms 69 vols. 16mo. "Ce recueil a rarement de la valeur par le mérite des poésies." (Vapereau.) 1. 14. Athénées. Several literary societies both in France and in the provinces, founded about the end of the last century, adopted the name of Athénée. petits vers, trifling poems. 1. 19. Hyacinthe Colin, died 1754. "Sa traduction joint au mérite de la fidélité celui d'être écrite d'un style pur et agréable." (Weiss.) 1. 20. Cicero (Marcus Tullius) (B. C. 106—43). Guillaume Antoine Le Monnier (1721-1797). His translations of Terence and of Plautus are still held in high estimation. Plautus (T. Maccius) (B. C. 254—184)—Terentius Afer (Publius) (B. C. 195-159 ?). 1. 23. qui eût fait pendant, which would have been the counterpart. le père Pierre Brumoy (1668—1742), a distinguished Jesuit scholar. His Théâtre des Grecs, published for the first time in 1730, has often been re-edited. 1. 24. Catullus (C. Valerius) (B. C. 87-47 ?)—Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) (B. C. 65—8). 1. 25. une bien autre ambition, a far different ambition. 1. 29. George Washington (1732—1799). The siege of Boston took place in 1776. 1. 32. des vers honorables, estimable lines. P. 12, 1. 6. un digne... a worthy... 1. 10. Saint-Cyr, a small town near Versailles. Madame de Maintenon founded there in 1680 a school for the gratuitous education of 250 young ladies of noble birth, but of reduced circumstances. The buildings of that school were, during the Revolution, given up to a |