une porte bâtie, ' gateway

1. 30. une courtine portant une galerie à mâchicoulis, denticulée et couverte, * a curtain surmounted by an embrasured and open gallery with machicolation.' A curtain is the part of a rampart between the flanks of two bastions. Machicolations are the openings underneath the gallery of a parapet through which molten lead was poured on the besiegers.

Page 32. 1. 3. taillades, ' slits.'

1. 10. à voûte ogive, ' with a pointed entrance archway.' Ogive is properly a noun, and means a pointed Gothic arch, as distinguished from the cintre, or rounded Norman arch.

1. 34. tréflées, consisting of three rounded bays ; literally, in the form of a clover leaf.

Page 33. 1. 10. le diazôme, from the Greek diàfafia, a ' girdle,' hence a narrow gallery giving access to the seats in a théâtre. In this case a sort of stone belt.

1. 16. Madame de Sévigné (1626-1676), famous alike for her motherly dévotion and her genius as a correspondent. She wrote many of her best letters to her daughter, Mme de Grignan, from Les Rochers, her country-house in Brittany. The letters contain fréquent référence to the woodland and gardens surrounding the château.