—[10]. Voltaire in "Discours en vers sur l'homme."
—[11]. on peut s'en trouver bien tant que, one may fare well enough as long as, etc.
—[12]. termes de basoche, legal phraseology. La basoche was, an association of lawyers' clerks.
—[13]. Se dérangerait-il, Could he be behaving badly?
—[14]. The "Trappists" were a religious order whose rules prescribed perpetual silence except in case of necessity.
—[15]. la Visitation, a celebrated convent in the southern part of Paris.
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—[16]. Amours, Cupids.
—[17]. Sardanapalus, king of Assyria, noted for his voluptuousness and effeminacy.
—[18]. Madame de Pompadour, a favorite of, Louis XV. From 1745 to her death in 1764, her influence over the king was unbounded.