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10. l'hôtel. This does not mean an hôtel, but a priva te mansion. However, it will be better hère to keep the French word, as this idiomatic use of it has no équivalent in English.

Hôtel des Toumelles, Hôtel Saint Paul, etc. Fanious mansions situated in the rue St. Antoine, near the Bastille. The former was sometime inhabited by King Louis XL La Bastille, the well-known state prison in Paris, was taken by the mob on July 14, 1789, and subsequently puUed down. The 14th of July is now kept in France as the great national holiday, and is looked upon as the ' Anniversary of Freedom,' much as the 4th of July is in the States.

13. les clercs de la Basoche ... les mystères. In France and in England (as in ancient (îreece) the drama had a religious origin. The first théâtre was the church, the first actors were the priests, and the first plays called 'miracles,' 'mysteries,' or ' passion -play. s,' were dramatized versions of the most striking scènes of the Scriptures. Soon thèse sacred dramas found their way from the church to the street, from the clergy to the laity, and were performed by itinérant companies of profcssional actoi's and jugglers. .Just as in London the parish clerks had formed themselves into a harmonie guild, chartered by Henry III. in 1233, so in Paris the clerks of Parliament founded a company which was chartered by Philippe le Bel in 1303, with the title of Clercs de la Basoche (from Lat. hasilica, 'a palace'). Another Company, called Confrères de la Passion, was chartered by Charles VI. in 1402, and founded the Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne, the first regular théâtre in France. About the fifteenth century, both in France and England, the old miracle

plays were superseded by a new group of allegorical dramas, called MorcUititx, tlie subjects of which gradually left the sphère of religion and approached nearer real life. The best known of thèse is the Farce de l'avocat Pathelin, which may be considered as the first approach to real coniedy. Under Louis XIII. the comedians of the Hôtel de Boîcrgoçpie received the title of " Troupe Boj/ale," and later, in 1680, by their amalgamation with Molière's Company, was created what is now the famous Théâtre de la Comédie Française. Passion plays hâve recently been revived at Oberammergaii, in Germany.

25. au Châtelet, a diminutive of château ('castle'). This was the name of the law-courts. There were two buildings, le grand Châtelet, where cases were heard, and le petit Châtelet, which was really a gaol. Méat was not, of course, sold at the Châtelet, but in the parish or district which took its name from it.

31. chandeliers, oublieurs, pâtissiers. ThesutExes-Zerand-ew/' are generally called suffixes ' of the agent,' or suffixes 'of profession.' (English -er) -ier is added to nouns, e.g. jardin, 'gardeu'; jardinier, 'gardener,' etc. -eur is added to verbs, e.g. voler, 'to steal'; ^m voleur, 'a thief.' The oublieurs were pastry-cooks who sold a kind of wafer cakes [oublies), very much like the plaisirs which are still hawked about the public gardens and parks of Paris.

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