Vimdi%svàX, feathe7'-dealer. See page 30, note

6. septante-neuf. Old form still in good use in the South of France and French Switzerland.

7. sols = sons. A coin first made of silver, afterwards of copper, of which twenty made a pound {livre). The sou to-day is the twentieth part of a franc, and worth a little less than one cent (half-penny) ; sol is the older spelling used in accounts. Notice sou, page 45, line 31.

8. diQmÇiXSj farthings. Old coin of silver, and also gold, but later of copper. In the time of Molière, twelve deniers made a sol.

9. marchand of dry-goods evidently, and more particularly of cloths. See below, Scene XII. The noble purchases his outfit directly from the different dealers. M. Jourdain had got his through his tailor (Act IL, Scene 5).

Pag’e 45. — I. pistoles. The was a Spanish or Italian gold coin which at this time passed for a louis.

2. francs. The franc was an old French coin, first of gold, then of silver, which had the same value as the livre. The latter, however, was generally used in fractional accounts. The présent franc is a silver coin worth about nineteen cents (ten-pence).

3. enjôleux = enjôleur. A pronunciation which had its supporters, though many critics of the day condemned it as vulgar.

1 1 8 NOTES P. 46-49

Pa^e 46. — i. quérir = Still used after aller, envoyer

and venir.

2. Que faire ? A common use of the infinitive in interrogative clauses.