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1. 6. à la longue, in course of time. Mediœval authors hâve the expression ati long aller.

"Se j'ai chanté, ne m'a gaire valu; Au long aler, se Dieu plait, me vaudra."

Poe77i quoted by Lacurne de Sainte Palaye. 1. 12. Grégoire VII et Boniface VIII. Thefirst and the last of the great mediœval Popes ; the earlier of whom opposed the Emperor Henry IV, and the latter Philip the Pair, King of France.

2i8 VOLTAIRE.—LOUIS XIV.

1. 13. Bramante et Michel-Ange. Bramante and Michael Angelo were the architects of St Peter's at Rome.

1. 17. des guerres ô^*:., i.e. the Wars of the Roses, or of York and Lancaster, in the fifteenth century.