186. PREMIER SOURIRE DU PRINTEMPS. 15. HOUPPE DE CYGNE, powder puff. 188. L'AVEUGLE, i. LES PUITS DE VENISE; the dungeons of Venice are famous. 189. LE MERLE. 18. The Arve joins the Rhone just after the latter issues from Lake Geneva. The water of the Rhone is very clear and blue, while that of the Arve, especially when swollen by rain and melted snow, is muddy and grayish-yellow. 19O. 4. _mettre en démeure_, to summon by legal process. 191. L'ART, i. CARRARE, PAROS, marbles especially fine and white and adapted for statuary, the former from Carrara, Italy, the latter from Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea. 21. NIMBE TRILOBE; the Virgin was often represented in early paintings with a halo of three rounded lobes, in the shape of a trefoil, symbolizing the Trinity. VICTOR DE LAPRADE. 1812-1883. A poet of elevation and purity, whose worth is rather greater than his reputation, which has been somewhat eclipsed by that of his greater contemporaries. Works: _Psyché_, 1840; _Odes et Poèmes_, 1844; _Pointes évangéliques_, 1852; _Symphonies_, 1855; _Idylles héroïques_, 1858; _Pernette_, 1868; _Poèmes civiques_, 1873; _le Livre d'un père_, 1878; collected edition, _Oeuvres poétiques_, 4 vols., 1886-89. For reference: E. Biré, _Victor de Laprade, sa vie et ses oeuvres_, 1886; Sainte-Beuve, _Nouveaux lundis_, vol. i; E. Caro, _Poètes et romanciers_, 1888. 193. A UN GRAND ARBRE. 1840; from _Odes et Poèmes_. 5. CYBÈLE, or Rhea, goddess of the earth. LE DROIT D'AÎNESSE. 1875; from _le Livre d'un père_. 15. ÉCHERRA, from _échoir_. MME. ACKERMANN. 1813-1890. Louise-Victorine Choquet, who became Mme. Paul Ackermann by her marriage in 1844 and was left a widow in 1846, lived a life of great retirement and seclusion. Her work, the fruit of long solitude, bears the impress of a strong, reflective mind. It is deeply linged with pessimism. Works: _Contes et poésies_, 1863; _Poésies philosophiques_, 1874; collected in one volume, _Poésies_, 1877. For reference: Comte d'Haussonville, _Mme. Ackermann, d'après des lettres et des papiers inédits_, 1891. CHARLES-MARIE LECONTE DE LISLE. 1818-1894.