les Materne. See note to p. 11, 1. 3b

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4. ses larges épaules en voûte. En dénotes the manner; see note to p. 27, 1. 2. Absolute constructions of this kind are generally rendered by * with,' etc. Render en voûte hère by * bent.' Voûté is the ordinary word for ' bent by âge,' e.g. un vieillard voûté.

9. parpaillots. This insulting nickname, applied to the Huguenots, is derived either (1) from papillon; oi (2) frora parpillole, the name of a small coin which was put in circulation by the Protestants in the sixteenth century ; or (3) from the name of a certain sieur Parpaille, a native of Orange in the connty of Avignon (Vauclusé), who was put to death in 1562 for propagating Protestant tenets in the county.