The Grave-Digger's Receipt.
"I have received from M. de Chateaubriand the sum of eighteen francs that remained owing for the trellis-work which surrounds the grave of M. Armand Carrel.
"Saint-Mandé, 21 June 1838.
"Paid: Vaudran."
"Received from M. de Chateaubriand the sum of twenty francs for keeping up the grave of M. Carrel at Saint-Mandé.
"Paris, 28 September 1839.
"Paid: Vaudran."—B.
[323] Sabine Casimir Amable Voïart, Dame Tastu (1798-1885), author of several volumes of verse: Poésies(1826), Chroniques de France(1829), Poésies nouvelles (1834), Œuvres politiques(1837). She also published a large number of educational books. Some of her poems, notably the Ange gardien, the Dernier jour de l'année and the Feuilles de saule are happily inspired and deserve to live.—B.
[324] Favorinus (d. circa 135), a skeptical philosopher, a native of Arles, in Gaul, who taught rhetoric in Athens and in Rome under Hadrian.—T.
[325] 451-450 b.c.—T.
[326] Carmenta, the Arcadian prophetess, mother of Evander by Mercury.—T.
[327] Sappho (b. circa 612 b.c.), the most famous of poetesses. She was surnamed the Tenth Muse.—T.
[328] Corinna (fl. circa 470 b.c.), the Greek poetess, surnamed the Lyric Muse. She conquered Pindar in a trial of poetry and carried off the palm before him no less than five times.—T.
[329] Pindar (circa 520 b.c.—circa 450 B.C.), the greatest of the Greek lyric poets.—T.
[330] Marie de France (fl. 13th Century), author of a collection of fables entitled Ysopet, narrative poems entitled Laïs and a Purgatory of St. Patrick. Her works were collected and published in Paris in 1832.—T.