Je n'en sais rien, " I am net so sure

79, 1-16. Le cabinet de travail of the Abbé. The richly artistic room hère described in détail reinforces the conception of the Abbé's character developed in the play. His passionately esthetic nature plays an important part in his relation to the Duchess and nearly leads him astray by bringing him to doubt his fitness for the severe duties of the priesthood.

5. monstrances, "monstrances," réceptacles used to expose to view the consecrated host or small relies. Thèse monstrances were sometîmes masterpieces of artistic workmanship. The use of the old word monstrance instead of the modem "ostensoir" is significant, suggesting as it does something old and rare.

8. Cornets de pharmacie du seizième, "sixteenth century pharmaceutical re torts," artistic, old fashioned, twisted vases used origînally as retorts. This meaning of cornet is obsolète.

8. faïence italienne, "faïence," glazed earthenware usually decorated with colors. The name is taken from the city of Faenza in Italy, famous in the i5th century for the manufacture of this ware.

9. Table Louis XII, "Louis XII table." The style of the reign of Louis XII (1498-15 15), is the i5th century Gothic modified by the classic influences of the Renaissance. Some of the finest examples of wood-carving known, date from the i5th century. The early i6th century artists, about the time of Louis XII, wove into the gênerai scheme of the Gothic the détails of the Graeco-Roman or Renaissance style.