de quoi vivre. See note to p

32. selon sa fantaisie. .S'a is used impersonally, the sentence being elliptical : ' since that was the only way (for any one) to live in comfort, aud according to his own fancy.'

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6. une pellée. This word is seldom used : the usual word is pelletée. The suffi x -e'e = English fui. Ex. : bouchée, ' mouthful ' ; ntillerée, 'spoonful,' etc.

13. ceux qui sont sous le vent ; a nautical term. Lit. ' under the wind,' i.e. to leeward. Lepers were not aUowed to speak to persons who, owing to the direction of tlie wind, stood in danger of being contaminated by the germs which might be blown towards them.

16. que ce soit. Verbs of saying and thinking require (1) the indicative when the governing clause is affirmative ; (2) the subjunctive when the governing clause is négative, interrogative, or conditional. Contrast : Je crois qu'il est arrivé. Je ne crois pas qiCil soit arrivé. Crois-tu qu'il soit arrivé ? A good example of an extension of the same rule will be found in line 19 : Pourquoi faut-il vivre dans un monde où, l'on doive, , ., etc.

28. francs-archers. Up to the time of Charles VIL France had no national army, no regular troops. The francs-archers were the first organized body of foot-soldiers, and from them sprang what, after many changes, became the French infantry. They were created by an edict of 1448, according to which each of the 16,000 parishes in the kingdom was compelled to provide and maintain one archer, who was to receive a pay of four francs a month, and to be exempted from taxation. Hence the name of 'free-archers.'

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3. n fallut plusieurs jours à Jehan .... The verb falloir is a doublet of faillir, ' to fail ' (Lat. fallere). This enables us to understand why its personal object is in the dative case. ïhus Il lui faut de l'argent corresponds exactly to ' he is short of money (money fails him).' When translating falloir great attention must be paid to the context, as this verb admits of so many renderings. Say hère, 'It took Jehan several days to ... .'

7. faire le tour de Paris. The Paschal taper, which was roUed up like a cord, rauch after the fasliion of the modem rat de cave, was popularly believed to be as long as the Paris walls.