sur cette ma/tière, upon this subject. Note that the

more usual meaning of matière is 'material ; J sur ce sujet or à ce sujet being the more common form with the above signification.

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127.— 28. Ordonnance de Blois, Ordinance of Blois. The States General assembled at Blois in 1576 and in 1588. This city was the seat of one of the last struggles in the récent Franco-German war.