Rabelaisiens. Cf. p. 24, 1. 6, n

3. Foin de=interjection marquant qu*on ne fait aucun cas de quelque chose, Out (or away) with I

16. Le bon billet qtCa La Châtre, i, e., how ridiculoust the idea! The expression has passed into a proverb designating, in a given case, the worthlessness of a promise. It is said to hâve arisen from the expérience of one La Châtre, a French courtier, who on leaving his sweetheart for the army required of her by note a promise of fidelity, which she was soon to violate in the expression just quoted. The identity of the La Châtre in question is not established, although he waa

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probably a member of the noble family of La Châtre, of which some members were prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries.