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31. Thermidorien, see 9 thermidor in the Republican Calendar, p. 142.

129, 2. Moutonnière, sheep-like, ready to follow any leader ; this word always reminds one of the tale in Rabelais (1483-1553) in hich Parurge, wishing to take revenge of Dindenault, the sheep-merchant, buys a sheep of him and throws it into the sea ; all the other sheep follow their bleating cemrade, to the great dismay of poor Dindenault.

21, Le tiers État, in the old French monarchy the nation was divided into three orders, called “ Etats,” the Nobility, the Clergy, and the ‘‘ Tiers Etat ; ” peasants and serfs were not considered to belong to any order ; ‘The Etats généraux,” as in 1789, were an assembly of the three ‘* Etats.”

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8. Agnès, one of the principal characters of Molière’s (1622-1673) comedy, ‘‘ L'Ecole des Femmes ;” she is very timid, and has been brought up by Arnolphe in great ignorance; her ignorance nearly leads her astray. Arnolphe explains in the following celebrated lines his idea of a good girl and a perfect wife :—

Et, s’il faut qu’avec elle on joue au corbillon,

Et qu'on vienne à lui dire à son tour, Qu’y met-on ? Je veux qu’elle répunde, ‘* Une tarte à la crême ; ” En un mot qu’elle soit d’une ignorance extrême ; Et c’est assez pour eile, à vous en bien parler,

De savoir prier Dieu, m’aimer, coudre, et filer.