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.