I. à coup sûr, surety

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2. frères ignorantins. The I^orantines are a religious congrégation of men in the Roman Catholic Church devoting themselves to the gratuitous instruction of poor children.

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1. servir de rallonge au mal, to serve to extend the power ofeTnl.

2, tout d'une pièce, entirely.

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le I. de la porte de Tenfer. The inscription on the door of the Infemo

in Dante's Divina Commedia runs : " Ail hope abandon, ye who enter." 2. il haïssait devant lui : cf. page 6, note 2.

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