La Belle Bourbonnaise, A satirical political song

of the 18th century, supposed to hâve been aimed at one of the fair but frail favorites of Louis XV. It was revived in the first half of the 19th century and for a while had some vogue. But with the old chevalier it tiad probably the sîgnificance of merely a royalist souvenir of olden times. 23. Il était payé pour, He had leamed to, had good reason to.

190. 3. Mule du pape. Cf. n. p. 26, 1. 1, and ex. p. 222, 1. 12. 10. Ma langue aura fourché, My tongue must hâve

made a slip. Cf. n. p. 170, 1. 17.