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1. 19. leur mariage : the queen, Maria Theresa of Spaîn, had died in 1683.

1. -2 1 . de plain-pied à celui du roi, on a level with that of the Vxng : plai7i-pied is also used as a substantive. "Il y a beaucoup de plain-pied dans cette maison."

1. 23. retirées coj7ime elle, who led, as she did, a retired life.

encore les voyait-elle, and even then she saw them.

1. 31. de complaire. The différence between plaire onà complaire is that the former means simply to please, whereas the latter means to acquiesce for the purpose of pleasing.

1. 37. Un cordon bleu, a nomination as knight of the Holy Ghost.

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1. I. les fermes générales, the taxes, dues, tolls, &c. were farmed out to the highest bidder, vv^ho paid a fixcd sum to the government, and repaid himself from the taxes he was empowered to collect.