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p>88. 4. LUZ, ARGELÈS, villages in the department of Hautes- Pyrénées. 6. ADOUR, a river of France rising in the Pyrenees and flowing into the Bay of Biscay. 15. SAINT Denis is the patron saint of France. 24. Obéron, king of the fairies in mediaeval folk-lore; cf. _A
Midsummernight's Dream_.
89. LA BOUTEILLE À LA MER, 1853. Bears the sub-title: _Conseil à un jeune homme inconnu_. 19. Chatterton (1752-1770), the precocious English poet who, failing to get recognition for his talents, was reduced to destitution and ended his life by poison. Wordsworth wrote of him in
The Leech-Gatherer:
"I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy,
The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride."
For de Vigny he stood almost as the type of the poet; he used his career as literary material in the narrative Stello (1832) and in the drama Chatterton (1835). Gilbert, see p. 320. He is also brought into Stello. MALFILÂTRE (1732-1767), a French poet who was tempted by the praise given to his ode, _le Soleil fixe au milieu des planètes_, to try a literary career at Paris and died in great poverty. He has passed wrongly for an unappreciated genius.
9O. 27. TERRE-DE-FEU, Terra del Fuego.
91. 6. CES PICS NOIRS, les pics San-Diego, San-Ildefonso. (Author's note.) 13. Reims, a city in Champagne, the center of the champagne trade. 25. Aï, a town in Champagne, near Reims, noted for its wine; the name is also applied to the wine.
8. DES FLORIDES; in speaking of both coasts of Florida the French formerly used the plural.
VICTOR HUGO.
1802-1885.
The foremost literary figure of the century in France. His commanding influence as the chief of the Romantic school and the champion of a revolution in literary doctrine and practice has led to his being generally considered in connection with the movement to which he gave such a powerful impulse. But he was not