enfant trouvé, 'foundling

menuisier, used as an adjective to apprenti, E.B. 37. laissait. For this use of the imperfect in giving the terms of a will, treaty, &c. see E.B. 172, end.

1. 39. métairie, properly a farm, the tenant of which paid half (medietalem, moitié) of the produce in rent. It is often used, as here, of any small farm. Thus Bossuet speaks of Regulus retiring to his métairie.

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