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32. Besançon, the most important town of the Free County of Burgundy (Franche-Comté). Being a Free City of the Empire, and in the territories of the Duke of Burgundy, it would be a safe refuge for a French serf.

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II. Ses hommes d'ai&ires, ' his agents.' 16. en Terre-Sainte, ' to the Holy Land.'

18. mon domaine, 'my demesne' ; the land which the lord retamed in his own hands, aud did not give to vassah.

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2. Je n'ai que fiBire...de sa marchandise, ' I don't want his goods.' 27. A moi? 'Mine?' The dative is used hère to repeat and emphasize the possessive adjective. Eve § 148.

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1 3. que m'importe ? * what's that to me ? '

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