par journée. See note to p

20. corvée. This word, from Low-Latin corrogata (opéra)— corroda (ninth century) — meant strictly 'gratuitous labour on the roads.' From this statute labour the nobility only were exempt. Corvée was also used to mean rent paid in service. It now meaus any very disagreeable task.

21. du four banal. Ban was : (1) summons to vassals to follow their lord to war ; (2) district over which the summons was made. Banal is, then, what was common to the ban, or manor. The word now means ' common,' in a bad sensé, * paltry,' * trivial.' Of course the four banal, moulin banal, etc., which were really profitable monopolies of the lord, were not popular in their day. Cf. Scott's " Monastery," en. xiii.

26. Ce qu'on peut se figurer de pire. De pire dépends on ce que. Cf. quelque chose de bon — personne de blessé. Lit., * what worst oue may picture to one's self.' Kender, 'the worst thing you can imagine.'

28. alors que. The addition of que makes the adverb alors équivalent to the conjunction lorsque.

— . religieux are men in regular 'monastic orders.' Thus mettre une fille en religion, is to make a girl a * nun,' a religieuse.

29. chanoines. 'Canons' were : (1) regular, confined to a monns-

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tery ; (2) secular, living by rule (Greek, Ttanôn), who visited the laity, till the institution of parish priests relieved them of their duties.

— . carmes. Carmélites, or of the Order of Motrat Carmel; called déchaussé'Sy or bare-footed, froui wearing sandals, thus showing the bare feet.

— . mendiants. Begging friars. Les Frères Mendiants were powerful as an Order as late as the end of the fifteenth century. They are satirized in conteniporary literatnre as lovera of good eating.