Vêtait. Cf. note to

18. edui dSf etc. Lit. < the one of his disciples who.' This is more emphatic than *the disciple who.' Remember that celui, the demonstrative pronoun, can only be used before a relative or de.

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25. mauvai» pa». The idiom is derived from making a false step. Se tirer d^un mauvaiê pa» is *to get out of- an awkward dilemma/

1. Henri III, roi de, eto. For the omission of the article before a noun in apposition, cf. below : VUlefranehe, tfUle catholique.

2. des guerre» de religion. The religious wars between the French Galviuists and their Catholic kings may be said to have begun with the massacre of the Yaudois, a Galvinist population living in the confines of Provence. Francis I. permitted, in 1546, a sentence pronounced against the Yauduis by the parliament of Aix to be put in execution against tliem. During the rei^ of Francis' successor, Henri II., the Galvinists gathered strength. On the accession of Francis II., the Calvinists, led by the Prince de Gondé and the Admiral de Goligni, began a struggle which continued during the reigns of Charles IX., memorable for his massacre of the Protestants on St. Bartholomew's Day of 1512, and of Henri III., and ended only with the entry of Henri lY. into Paris in 1594, and his promulgation of the Edict of Nantes in 1598, by which the rights of French Protestants were defined and secured.

9. de» deux c6tA. Translate * on both sides.' ' Both ' without a noun is tone deux or tou» lee deux or Vun et Vautre,

2, it y a trois cents ans. Cf. il y a longtemps, ' a long time ago.' Vingt and cent take an s when multiplied by another numjjer, if they are not followed by a number. Therefore one would write trois cent vingt hommts, because cent is followed by a number, and vingt is not multiplied.

6. de bonne heure. *■ In good time ' is not quite the same thing. Say * early.' Gf. below, 1. 1 1 , trop bon matin, lit. *too good morning/ i.e. *• too early in the morning.'