5. Cela me va! ‘That suits me!’
[25], 27. le cardinal de Fleury. See note to p. 10, l. 15.
[26], 13. le vainqueur de Menzikoff. There may be here a hidden reference also to another of similar name—the prince Martznikoff, who was, in 1845-46, one of the best known admirers of the actress, Mlle Rachel. Napoleon III, whose experiences resembled in many particulars those of Maurice de Saxe, had, at the time the play of Adrienne Lecouvreur was presented (1849), superseded Martznikoff as the protector of Rachel.
[27], 6. déclamation emphatique: ‘affected, or overdrawn, elocution.’
14. Arma virumque cano: ‘Arms and the man I sing.’ The beginning of Vergil’s Æneid.
18. C’est de l’Horace ou du Virgile: Even the abbé appears none too sure in literary questions.
24. C’est sans réplique: ‘It cannot be contested.’
[28], 2. je m’en rapporte à: ‘I leave it to.’
10. Laissez donc! ‘Nonsense!’
10. que vous vous formez: ‘that you are improving.’