une excellente 7-oyaliste. See Introduction

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1. 3. maître des requêtes, an officiai whose duty it was to report on pétitions made to the privy council. Translate ' privy-councillor.'

1. 4. qui est ici, ' who has been (and is still) hère.' Notice the use of the présent tense in French when the action spoken of is still going on. So in other languages, English being an exception in the use of the perfect and pluperfect. Latin, jamdudum ibi sum. German, ich bin schon lange hier.