49. 2. C'ÉTAIT À QUI LE NOURRIRAIT, each strove to outdo the other in feeding him. 50. LES SOUVENIRS DU PEUPLE. This is one of the poems that contributed to increase the prestige of the name of Napoleon. 9. BIEN ... QUE; the parts of the conjunction are sometimes thus separated. 51. 10. CHAMPAGNE, previous to the Revolution a political division of France, having Lorraine on the east and Burgundy on the south. Like most other provinces it belonged formerly to independent princes. It came to the kings of France by the marriage of Philip IV. in the last half of the thirteenth century. Since the Revolution all these historical divisions have been supplanted by the _départements_, new administrative districts intended to obliterate the old boundaries. But the old names are still familiarly used. Champagne was invaded in 1814 by an army of the powers allied against Napoléon. 18. S'ASSOIT, instead of the usual _s'assied_ of cultivated speech, is in keeping with the unlettered condition and familar tone of the speaker. 52. LES FOUS. Perhaps the word "cranks" comes nearest to giving the force of the title. 22. SAUF À, _reserving the privilege of_. 53. 5. SAINT-SIMON; Claude-Henri, comte de Saint-Simon (1760-1825), was the founder of French socialism. He demanded the application of the principle of association to the production and distribution of wealth. 13. Francois- Marie-Charles FOURIER (1772-1837), the founder of Fourierism, advocated a social reform in the direction of communism, and proposed to reorganize society in large groups, or phalanxes, living together in a perfect community in one building, called a phalanstery. Such communities as Brook Farm were attempts at a practical application of Fourier's ideas. See O. B. Frothingham's Life of George Ripley. 21. Barthélemy-Prosper ENFANTIN (1796-1864) was a follower of Saint-Simon and developed his doctrines. His means for securing the emancipation and equality of woman was the abolition of marriage. CHARLES-HUBERT MILLEVOYE. 1782-1816. Author of several poetical tales of chivalry and a considerable number of elegies, is remembered for hardly anything but these celebrated lines: Works: _Oeuvres_, 5 vols., 1814-16; a collection of his _Poésies_ is published in one volume, with a notice by Sainte- Beuve. 54. LA CHUTE DES FEUILLES. 19. ÉPIDAURE; Epidaurus, a town in Argolis on the Saronic gulf, the chief seat of the worship of Aesculapius, the god of the healing art. MADAME MARCELINE DESBORDES-VALMORE. 1786-1859. Is still ranked well among the lyric poets of the first part of the century, though the celebrity that she enjoyed for a time has passed. Though her language still has a flavor of the eighteenth century, the note of emotion is direct and sincere. The theme that best inspired her was love--love betrayed and disappointed.