sur son fojids, on land belonging to him

1. 17. les commis de ses fermes, literally, the clerks of the farmed taxes, i. e. hère custom-house officers.

1. 30. à 7ie plus pardonner. The législation of Louis XIV on the subject of duelling was extremely severe. The sentence of death pronounced by Richelieu (1626) was maintained; a duellist might be arrested and sent to prison merely on suspicion (1670), his property was confiscated and given to the hospitals (1700). The gênerai edict of repression was issued in August 1679.

1. 39. par différentes marques. Till the reign of Louis XIV each French régiment wore the colours of its colonel ; it was Louvois who in 16 16 introduced the uniform throughout the army.

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1. 7. plus de conjiétahle. The last constable of France was Lesdiguières, who died in 1627.

1. 22. le corps des dragons. Various etymologies hâve been suggested for the word dragon. Voltaire himself says {Foèf?ie sur la bataille de Fontenoy, note n. n.), "l'opinion la plus vraisemblable sur l'origine du mot dragon est qu'ils portèrent un dragon dans leurs étendards sous le maréchal de Brissac, qui institua ce corps dans les guerres du Piémont."