flèche, spire

3. trois cents ans. More than that. It is said that when on trial in the necklace affair he was asked if he had anything to reproach himself with. He replied; "Nothing but the death of Pompey and even with regard to that I acted under the orders of Ptolemy." The magistrate remarked that they would refrain from going into matters that occurred under his predecessors in office. Cagliostro sometimes gave three hundred years as his âge, at other times he said he had been présent at the marriage of Cana.

4. lui était, etc. Note the disjunctive pronoun used for emphasis and contrast.

Pag^ 78. — I. Du Barry. ' A favorite of Louis XV. who died before the necklace was quite ready for her.

Page 79. — i. lazo, lasso,

2. Marie-Thérèse, empress of Austria, mother of Marie- Antoinette.

3. Régent, the largest jewel of the French crown diamonds, originally acquired under the reign of Louis XV. for over three million francs.

Page 80. — I. épingles. a,lLnf^vùi pin-money,