Endnotes

  1. Jean-Christophe’s letter to the Grand Duke Leopold is inspired by Beethoven’s letter to the Prince Elector of Bonn, written when he was eleven. ↩

  2. A nickname given by German pamphleteers to H.M. (His Majesty) the Emperor. ↩

  3. The anthologies of French literature which Jean-Christophe borrowed from his friends the Reinharts were:

    1. Selected French Passages for the Use of Secondary Schools, by Hubert H. Wingerath, Ph. D., director of the real-school of Saint John at Strasburg. Part II: Middle forms.⁠—7th Edition, , Dumont-Schauberg.

    2. L. Herrig and G. F. Burguy: Literary France, arranged by F. Tendering, director of the real-gymnasium of the Johanneum, Hamburg.⁠—, Brunswick.

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  4. See “Morning.” ↩

  5. See “Revolt.” ↩

  6. See “Revolt.” ↩

  7. See “Revolt.” ↩

  8. See “Morning.” ↩

  9. See “The Marketplace.” ↩

  10. The hymn to Truth here introduced is an abridgment of an article by Giuseppe Prezzolini (La Voce, ). ↩

  11. “When a thing has happened, even the fools can see it.” ↩

  12. “I have had my fill, brother: save thyself!” ↩