bourreau, brute ^ wretch

6. grand'peur. The masculine adjective with a feminine noun [grand* faim, grand* route, etc.,) is a remnant of the declension in old French, which, following the Latin, had but one form for the masculine and feminine. The grammarians of the seventeenth century, erroneously believing that the absence of the e was an elision, added the apostrophe.

Page 85. — i. geôlier, pronounced yV?///; French/

Page 86. — i. haut-de-chausses, knee-breeches ; to-day we would say culotte courte.

Page 87. — i. Ce fut à quoi je m'arrêtai. This was what I resolved to do,