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3. allions de pair avec eux, treated them on an equal footing{2& our peers).

Page 77. — i. leur en devaient encore de reste, were after all in their debt. This picture of the Madrid actors is nothing but a lively satire of the French actors, with whom Lesage had had serious disputes; histrions has now a contemptuous meaning attached to it.