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Fait r octroi: has for ever srlven concession of It

% Or bien: Locution very freanently used by the lawyers of the time and which Rabelais parodied in Pantagruel: ** Allez, enfants, or bien, et passez outre, or bien, nous ne sommes tant diables» or bien qm tious sommes noirs, or bien, or bien, or bien,'*

8. Rapportons-nous : let us leave it to ; better be rapportons-nous-en from s'en rapporter : to leave it to.

4. Raminagrobis: the etymolofir of this name Is doubtful. In a farce of the XVI century, it desisniates the counsellors of the Rouen Parliament and forms two words, ces gros raminas grohis, Ramina si^rnifles cat; as to grobis, or grosbxs, faire du grobis was used familiarly mean- Iniir to play the offlolous one ; so that Raminagrobis is a cat of importance.

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