les tribunaux, the courts of law

t Institut, the aggregate of ail the scientific and literary societies founded in Paris at varions times by the government. Académie Française (1635, Richelieu) — Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1663, Colbert) — Académie des sciences (1666, Colbert) — Académie des beaux-arts (1648, 1666, 167 1, Mazarin and Colbert) — Académie des sciences morales

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et politiques (1795, republic). T\i& Institut de France was reorganized in 1795.

1. 25. dais. Notice that dais is originally a Provençal substantive meaning a dining-table.

*' Priore prandente ad magnam mensam quam dais vocamus. "

(Matth. Paris.) Hence, by extension, a platform, which is the meaning which it has retained in English. And, later on, the hangings which are above the platform, which is more especially the French signification.

I. 32. dans r appui de sa main... =dans F appui donné par sa main...

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