[Footnote 103: St. Paul (229-342),çoisRené the first hermit, retired to the Thebaid at the age of twenty-two, and lived there for over ninety years. St. Paul the Hermit is honoured on the 7th of March. He is known also as St. Paul the Simple.--T.]
[Footnote 104: Robert Arnauld, known as Arnauld d'Andilly ( 1589-1674), son of Antoine Arnauld, known as the Great Arnauld, and father of Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne. Amauld d'Andilly left Memoirs, published in 1734, and a Journal, first published in 1857. The quotation is taken from the former.--T.]
[Footnote 105: L'Hôpital's Complete Works were edited by Dufey in 1824-1825. He excelled in Latin verse.--T.]
[Footnote 106: I have already mentioned d'Ossat's famous Letters addressed to Villeroi.--T.]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 108: Richelieu created the French Academy in 1635.--T.]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 110: The name assumed by Damis in Piron's Comedy of _Métromanie_ (Act I. Scene VIII. ).--B.]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 113: Thucydides (_circa_ 471 B.C.--_circa_ 401 B.C.), the famous Greek commander and historian.--T.]
[Footnote 114: Demosthenes (385 B.C.--322 B.C.), the statesman and greatest of Greek orators.--T.]
[Footnote 115: Xenophon (_circa_ 430 B.C.--post 357 B.C.), the Greek general, historian, essayist and author of the romance of the _Cyropœdia_, led the 10,000 Greeks to the Black Sea after the Battle of Cunaxa and the murder of the Greek generals.--T.]