également, ' as well

6. à la poulalne, 'peaked.' Poulaine is the beak-head of a ship, and hence the term was applied to the shoes with long tumed-up points worn in the fifteenth century.

8. fonxrés, *furred,* not 'stuffed* or *thrust' menn-Talr, * miniver,' fur of the grey squirrel.

9. des habits mi-partis, *suits half of one colour and half of another.' Hère mi is indéclinable and is really an adverb; parti however as an adjective takes the pluraL

Quelques seigneurs des plus élégants, 'some especially élégant nobles.' The partitive genitive of the adjective in the superlative is used instead of the adjective tris or some such word. . Eve § 135, Obs. a.

15. sur les lices, 'in the open field/ literally, 'in the lists,' and applied hère to a space endosed as if for a toumament, and used for afair.

17. manières rondes, *off-hand ways.' Rond means 'plainspoken,' as also in English, * I shall be round with you.'

18. retors conmie trois Uanceaux et un Normand, * as sharp as three men of Le Mans and one Norman put tc^ether.' The Normans enjoy a réputation for shrewdness in France, as Yorkshiremen do in England ; and their neîghbours of Le Mans are not £u: behind them.

a6. ôtant son bonnet pour le remettre, * pulling ofif his cap and putting it on again.'

39. il n'y a pas de mal à oela, * there 's no harm in that.' Hère the dative is that of the possessor. Eve § 148.

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14. prud'hommes. Thèse prud'hommes were a sort of tribunal for trade cases, elected by the traders. Similar conseils des prud'hommes still exist in France.

a6. Venaient ensuite des renseignements. Note the inversion of

the usual order with this and some similar phrases, reste donc, &c.

Eve §12^(4).

37. de les faire paraître avec avantage, * of showing them off.' 31. le fin du métier, ' the trick of the trade,' literally, ' the sharp-

nessofthetrade.'