en pleine Lorraine, ' in the heart of Lorraine

ai. se trouvaient en Mche, ' were lying fallow.'

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a. venait porter l'effiroi, ' spread terror/ literally, ' came to bring terror.'

6. ces dérangements. The chief of thèse troubles was the exodus of the people of Domremy to Neufchâteau in 1428, when the Burgundians attacked Vaucouleurs.

17, les Armagnacs, the supporters of the Dauphin, afterwards Charles VII, as opposed to the Burgundians. They were so called from Bernard, Count of Armagnac, who led the party of the Duke of Orléans after the murder of that prince in 1407.

13. Cbarles VU, son of Charles VI, was born in 1403, succeeded his father in 1422, and, after a long struggle with the English

and Bui^ndîans, recovered France, owing in great measure to the help of Jeanne d'Arc. He died in 1461.

14. les Bourguignons. Durîng the madness of Charles VI, France was disturbed by the rivalry of Louis Duke of Orléans, the King's brother, and Jean sans Peur, Duke of Burgundy, his cousin, and the Bourguignons or Burgundians were the party foUowing the latter. After the murder of the Duke of Burgundy in 1419 at Montereau, the Burgundian party went over to Henry V of England and helped him to obtain the crown.

18. le due de Bedford. John, Duke of Bedford, brother of Henry V, was appointed Régent in France for the infant Henry VI. He won several battles, but the victories of Jeanne d'Arc tomed the contest. He died in 1435.

97. à Tezemple de, ' like,' an adverb of manner formed by the dative. Eve § 151.

30. Et l'on. Von is used for euphony, instead of ouy after et^ si, &c. Eve § 106.

Teepolr sans motif, * unreasonable hope.'

33. Domremy, a village on the Meuse, in Lorraine, famous as having been the native place of Jeanne d'Arc

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9. prlmeyert, from prime^ the old French adjective from Latin primust and vert — the * first green * of the spring.

5. l'arlsre des fées. This ' fairy tree ' near Domremy was the scène

of a festival in Mid-Lent each year, when the village girls and the £unily

' of the lord of the manor hung garlands on the tree. This innocent

festival was made a pretext for the charge of witchcraft against Jeanne

at her trial.

7. au pied duquel. With a noun govemed by a préposition duquel or de qui is used, not dont, Eve § 87.