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oendrlen, * ash-rakers,' who had to keep the fires dear

sonffleurB, * blowers/ who saw to the buming of the fires.

galopinB, *scullions, kitchen-boys,* boys employed to nxn errands, or do odd jobs, from galoper^ * to gallop.*

31. dédmer, a meal so called from being taken at ten o'dock. (Latin decimus,)

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3. Palais-Royal. Hère the author seems to hâve committed an anachronism. The Palais Royal, famous for the rows of shops in its gardens, was built by Cardinal Ridielieu, as the Palais Cardinal, and presented to Louis XIII, after whose death it was known as the Palais RoyaL

4. Baint-Lanrent, a &ir held on St Lawrence*s day, August loth. Landit. A celebrated fair, held at St Denis, near Paris, on the

iîrst Monday after June 11 th. The members of the University of Paris used to corne there to supply themselves with parchment for the year.

9. je ne la reverrai de longtemps, 'I shall not see her again for long.* The genitive is used idiomatically to answer the question Aaw lang?t but only in négative sentences. Eve § 133*

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