6 May 2019

• Retinue: A group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person. 
• He is an art lover: Mention the Prado Museum in Madrid and he might tell you the secret of finding 5 minutes without crowds to appreciate Diego Velazquez's Las Meninas, his favorite painting, which depicts a Spanish princess encircled by her retinue. (Paul Voosen)
• Au courant: Fully informed; up-to date
• People talk of keeping au courant, and no doubt an intellectual cannot ignore the human race, nor be indifferent what is written in his special field; but take care lest the current carry away with it all your capacity for work and instead of bearing you onwards prevent you from making any headway against it. (A.G. Sertillanges)