m., gallant, lover, suitor, wooer. galante, gallant; of (or pertaining to) lovers.

I received your gallant (galante) and beautiful sonnet; and though you said nothing about it, I saw at once for whom it was intended, and gave it to him.

Never shall I forget the first enchantment of "Les Fêtes Galantes."

R64215. FETE GALANTE, a dance-dream in one act after Maurice Baring's story of that name.

SEE Fate galante.

SEE Féte galante.

L'Europe galante.

SEE Bott, Alan. BOULARAN, J. Marie Galante, par Jacques Deval, pseud.

R64215. FETE GALANTE, a dance-dream in one act after Maurice Baring's story of that name.

SEE Fate galante.

SEE Féte galante.

L'Europe galante.

SEE Bott, Alan. BOULARAN, J. Marie Galante, par Jacques Deval, pseud.

On the picture's reverse the poem records a conversation galante. 'Beloved, what are you doing With a golden orange in your hand?' So said the moon-faced one Placing a dot On the bright circles Painted in the house.

Benecke has devoted a special "Excursus" to this play (203-205), in which he justly remarks that readers of Greek literature "need hardly be reminded of how utterly foreign to the Greek of Euripides's day is the conception of the 'galante Ritter' setting out in search of ladies that want rescuing."

[Footnote 3: Paraphrased from the 'Academe Galante' (Ed. 1708, p. 160).

We have had a Count d'Usson and his wife these six weeks; and last Saturday arrived a Madame de Boufflers, sçavante, galante, a great friend of the Prince of Conti, and a passionate admirer de nous autres Anglois.

He named the first island Dominica, because it was discovered on a Sunday, and to the second island he gave the name of his ship, Marie-Galante.

On the 19th the fleet anchored in a bay on the western coast, where Columbus landed and took possession in the name of his royal patrons with the same formalities as observed in Marie-Galante, and named the island San Juan Bautista.

Marie-Galante, discovery of.

And in some of his books, Bonne Chanson, Fetes Galantes, Romances sans paroles, and his last volume, Sagesse, were poems where he himself was revealed as an original and outstanding figure.

Everything characteristic of Verlaine was expressed in these adorable verses of the Fetes Galantes:

[Note 2: The first island was discovered on November 3d, and was named La Deseada, or The Desired; five others, including Domingo and Maria Galante were discovered on the same date.]

The course afterwards passed by the islands of Madanino and Guadeloupe and Maria Galante, of which I have spoken at length in my First Decade.

There is another charming island lying ten miles to the south of Guadaloupe, which is called Galante; its surface is level and it is thirty miles in circumference.