L. 37. _nonchalant du terme._ This use of _nonchalant de_ shows Chénier
to have been familiar with Montaigne, in whose writings it occurs
frequently, e.g. 'Je veux... que la mort me trouve plantant mes choulx,
mais _nonchalant d'elle_,' I. xix. _Nonchalant = non + chalant_, pres.
part. of _chaloir_ (Lat. _calere_, to be hot, hence, desire ardently),
an obsolescent verb now only used impersonally in the third person
singular of the present indicative: 'Il ne me chaut de cela.'