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Title.— Abbé, like its English cognate, formerly meant the superior of an abbey or monastery, but is now synonymous with prêtre, in line 1. curé, 1. 4, is applied to a priest in charge of a parish. Abbé is best translatée! " Father," and curé, priest or " Father."

1. — 9. grille d'entrée, gâte (at the entrance to the park or grounds).

15. à une heure de relevée, at one o'clock in tlie afternoon. relevée means, literally, rising. Its présent meaning is derived f rom the custorn of lying down to rest at noon. relevée is the time for getting up and going to work. audience des criées du tribunal civil, session of the civil court for the public sale of property.

16. Souvigny. There is a small town of this name in central France, noted as the cradle of the Bourbons, but this Souvigny is a purely imaginary place.