which were in his possession, he had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a secondhand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life’s work. He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, Les Quadrins Historiques de la Bible , edition of 1560; La Concordance des Bibles , by Pierre de Besse; Les Marguerites de la Marguerite , of Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book Ee la Charge et Dignité de l’Ambassadeur , by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; a Florilegium Rabbinicum