ENDNOTES
1. M. Pollard clearly wishes to consign to oblivion his translation of Carlyle’s French Revolution into heroic Alexandrines, published privately at Dijon in 1927.
2. An insult to the home of the Academic Francaise.
3. Charles de Gaulle, with no declared political programme, was ruler of France.
4. The title was chosen by her dealer, who names all Judy’s work. Most illustrated histories of modern British art show a photograph of Four Sisters, ascribing it to the Pop or Surrealist school. Ms Paulina Cameron, topiary adviser to the National Trust, is supervising the cultivation of a hedge shaped like Four Sisters for the Melcombe Priory National Heritage Museum. Visitors will be able to walk under the arches of the insteps.
5. A gophor is a fetcher and carrier in the film and other entertainment industries. It is unconnected with gopher, a burrowing pouched rodent or ground squirrel of the spermophil genus: unconnected with gopher, a miner who digs without hope of lasting achievement. (See Shorter O.E.D.)