[154], 2. cette maîtresse en titre: ‘his acknowledged ladylove.’
24. pour nous mettre à même de prononcer: ‘to enable us to decide.’
[155], 13. Cendrillon: ‘Cinderella.’
19. Mille et une nuits: ‘Arabian Nights.’
[157], 4. est décidément des nôtres: ‘is really our guest.’
[158], 4. Le Songe de Pauline. Pauline is the heroine of the tragedy of Polyeucte by Corneille.
6. Hermione: daughter of Helen, in Andromaque (1667) by Racine.
8. Camille: heroine in the tragedy of Horace (1640) by Corneille.
10. Ariane abandonnée: a reference to the mythological story of Ariane, daughter of Minos. She gave to Theseus the thread by means of which he was able to find his way out of the Labyrinth, after having slain the Minotaur. She was abandoned by him in the island of Naxos and cast herself from a rock into the sea.
10. Ariane: the best tragedy (1672) by Thomas Corneille.