qui avait son franc-parler, who wasfree spoken

Page 18. — I. M*est avis = c'est mon avis.

2. ne fit de confidences à personne, took no one into his confidence.

Page 19. — I. la légende dorée, a collection of legends and anecdotes of the Saints compiled in 1474, and very widely known in its day. Saint-Roch (died in 1327), attacked by the plague while ministering to its victims, retired into the woods and was saved from death by a little dog, a companion in ail his wanderings, who brought him each day a loaf of bread.