Tbis is an allusion to tbe wars of tbe Fronde

31. — 3. Marly le-Boy, five miles north of Versaille?. Tbe waters of tlie Seine were carried by bydraulic power from Marly to Versailles; tbis work lasted seven years and cost over two million dollars.

21. plniienrs lienes à la ronde: within a radins of several leagues.

24. préséance : tbe right to be placed above or to précède some one.

32.— 14. Mlle, de Seadéri, Madeleine, (1607-1701,) autbor of Le Grand Ct/i'us, CUlie, novels in ten volumes wbicb were very mucb read in tbe seventeentb century.

33.— 3. ils se composaient snr loi : tbey fasbioned tbeir conduct after bis.