[105] L'Hôpital's Complete Works were edited by Dufey in 1824-1825. He excelled in Latin verse.—T.
[106] I have already mentioned d'Ossat's famous Letters addressed to Villeroi.—T.
[107] The Abbé François Le Metel, Sieur de Boisrobert (1592-1662), a poet and favourite of the Cardinal de Richelieu, who endowed him with a number of livings, nearly all of which he lost at play. He was one of the founders of the French Academy and worked on its Dictionary.—T.
[108] Richelieu created the French Academy in 1635.—T.
[109] Richelieu's literary remains include an enormous number of religious works, dramas, Memoirs, correspondence and State papers. Of these, the purely literary works are of no considerable value.—T.
[110] The name assumed by Damis in Piron's Comedy of Métromanie (Act I. Scene VIII.).—B.
[111] Solon (circa 638 b.c.—circa 559 b.c., the great law-giver: "When he had carried his great reforms, elegy became the voice of his calm joy" (Jebb, Greek Literature).—T.
[112] Simonides of Amorgos (fl. circa 660 b.c.) "wrote the Archæology of Samos in two books of elegiacs, of which no trace now remains" (Mahaffy, History of Classical Greek Literature).-T.
[113] Thucydides (circa 471 b.c.—circa 401 b.c.), the famous Greek commander and historian.—T.
[114] Demosthenes (385 b.c.—322 b.c.), the statesman and greatest of Greek orators.—T.