[30] Prix de Rome. A competition takes place every year amongst the students of the Ecole des Beaux Arts for this prize; the successful competitor is sent to Rome for a year at the expense of the Ecole. [Trans.]

[31] Assistance Publique, official organisation of the charitable works supported by the State. [Trans.]

[32] La Vie d’un Savant, by the author of the present work. [Trans.]