DICTIONARY

PHILOSOPHICAL.

CONTINUATION OF THE LETTER A.

ANA, ANECDOTES.

If one could confront Suetonius Roman historian known for his biographical accounts of the Caesars with the valets de chambre of the twelve Caesars, does one think they would always agree with him? And in the event of a dispute, who is the man who would not bet on the valets de chambre against the historian?

Among us, how many books are founded only on city rumors, just as physics was once founded only on chimeras repeated from century to century until our own time!

Those who enjoy transcribing in their study at night what they heard during the day should, like St. Augustine, write a book of retractions at the end of the year.

Someone tells the great usher L’Etoile Pierre de L'Estoile, a diarist and chronicler of the reigns of Henry III and Henry IV that Henry IV, while hunting near Creteil, entered an inn alone, where some Parisian lawyers were dining in an upper room. The king, who did not reveal his identity, and yet should have been very well known, had the hostess ask them if they would admit him to their table, or cede him a portion of their roast for his money. The Parisians replied