savait la créer, i.e. la circonstance

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1. 6. les Tuileries, thus called because the palace occupies the site of an old brick-kiln {tuilerie). Was begun in 1 504, by Philibert Delorme, architect to Catherine de' Medici.

1. 7. coup de partie, a master-stroke, liter. the stroke which décides the game {partie). The construction is, le choix de cette habitation fut un coup... Que in this sentence is a neuter pronoun.

140 CONSIDÉRATIONS, é-c. [chap. xvii.