qui vous aime = celui qui vous aime

6. ragaillardir, liven (it) up. Another word of M. Jourdain’s vocabulary.

7. je ne sais. Notice the suppression of pas, which might be used for emphasis.

Page 7. — I. Jeanneton. A heroine of popular poetry (derived f rom Jeanne). But this strophe is not true popular poetry, as the comparison with the “ tigre au bois ” shows. In his Misa7tthrope (Act I., Scene II.) Molière had already opposed to court verse the real poetry of the people. Here he but parodies, to further indicate the stupidity of his hero.

2. comme vous faites = comme vous apprenez. See page 2, note 8.

3. Ce sont deux arts, etc. This relation of music to dancing was more évident formerly than it is to-day. The origin of music may hâve been in the dance. A Royal Dancing Academy had been founded at Paris in 1661.