s'attaquer à, to fasten a quarrel upon

P. 20, 1. I. Orbe, a small town in the canton of Vaud.

1. 3. Friboiirg, capital of the Swiss catholic canton of that name; built about the year 11 78, by Berthold IV, margrave of Baden, and Duke of Zahringen.

Trappistes, nuns of the order of Cîteaux (Cistercian Bénédictines). The convent of La Trappe, of which the monastery at Val-Sainte formed a branch, was situated in Normandy, near Mortagne (department of Orne). The celebrated abbé de Rancé (Armand Le Bouttillier, 1626 — 1700) introduced at La TrajDpe the strictest reform.