Fermé (or enfermé) à double tcmr. Locked secordj

(as bj a double tom isl the lock). Fermer, etc. = Ut., donner deux taun de dé; but most <rften = fermer avec soin, 3. Donnait sur. Opened Qpon, fnmted.

18. Chevalier de Saint-Louis, A French <Hder of kni^hihood foonded bj Louis XIV. in 1693 for militarj service. Noknightsof thisorderhaTebeencreated sincel830.

23. La Restauration, An important historical term naed in a double sensé : to designate, fiist, the retum of the Bourbons to the throne of France in 1815, after the downfall of Napoléon; secondly, the period of their supremacy from 1815 to 1830, when the family was again expelled from the country, giving way to the House of Orléans, or the junior line, in the person of Louis-Philippe, a cousin of the deposed monarch. Two kings reigned from 1815 to 1830 : Louis XVHI (1814-1824) and Charles X (1824-1830), bothbrothers of Louis XVI, guillotined in 1793. The partisans of the deposed line, unwilling to recognize the weaker dynastie claims of the new king raised to power by the Révolution of 1830, styled themselves légitimistes, 10. 1, La majorité, fixée à vingt-cinq ans, A.ocording to French law, a son under 25 and a daughter under 21 cannot contract marriage without the consent of the parents. Until 80 years for sons and 25 for daughters marriage may be contracted against the consent of the parents, but only after the f ormallty called sommation respectueuse, made through a notary. Hence, not till after the âge of 80 in the son able to dispense with the parental veto on the choioe of a wif e. /

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10. 4« Metz (pronounce Mèss), An important city of the Lorraine région, with a history reaching back to Roman times. In the middle âges it was a free impérial city. It belonged to France from 1552 to 1870, when it again became Gterman. It figured prominently in the Franco-Prussian War as the Boene of severe fighting, a siège, and Bazaine's surrender with 176,000 men to the Gterman army. Situated on the Moselle, in the Gterman Lorraine ceded by France in 1871, it is of great stratégie importance, and is one of the strongest fortresses in Europe.