que n'êtes-vous. See note to p

29. Palais-Royal. Like most large buildings, the palace was surrounded by shops. It miist iiot be mistaken for the modem Palais-Royaf, which was built in 1636 by Cardinal Richelieu, and which, oddly enough, has also become the centre of the jewellery trade, and contains numberless shops, ' où se vend tout ce qui pare une femme.''

31. Landit, usually spelt Lendit. A famous fair, held every year at St. Denis, between the town and the chapel, in a field called champ du Lendit. It opened on the llth of June, and on that date the students of the University of Paris had a holiday. At the présent time le Lendit is the name given to the great annnal compétition, held in the Bois de Boidogne, between the best athlètes of ail the great Lycées (' public schools ').

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10. quoi qu'il pût lui arriver, ' whatever might happen to him.' See note to p. 12, 1. 2'2.

11. à bride avalée. A more common expression is à bride abattue, or ventre à terre, 'at full speed.'

14. Poitiers, the battle of Poitiers, won by the Black Prince over the King of France, Jean le Bon (1356).

comme à Poitiers. At the battle of Poitiers the arniy was composed entirely of knights and men-at-arnis, who refused the help of the ' commoners.'

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1. avec les gens. Les is hère used as a démonstrative adjective : say ' with those of the men-at-arms,' etc.

6. le frappèrent. Frapjjjèrent son oreille would be more to the point.

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19, 20. Confrères de la Passion ... mystères. See note to p. 42, 1. 13.

2fi. à prendre. This intinitive is really passive. Cf. 3faison à vendre. C'est facile à faire. The same construction exista in English.

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2. Sonitus et vacuum, etc., 'sounding emptîness, but nothing besides. '

S. compagnies de partisans. See note to p. 44, 1. 3.

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