former leur ronde, * to make their ring

20. leur titre de ch&tèlaine. The lady of a castle carried the keys of the household at her girdle, and thus the bunch of keys came to be called a châtelaine,

ai. damoiseUes, the older for m of demoiselles (damozel, damsel), showing its dérivation from dame,

chapelet, *rosary.'

93. patenôtres. In telling over the rosary, each small bead repre-

sented (for a woman) an Ave Maria repeated, and each laiger bead a Paier-Noster or Lord s Prayer — hence ihe nàme.

25. reverdies, 'spring songs»' from re and verdir \ songs celébrating the time when ail grows green again. Spring was a favourite subject with mediseval poets.

a6. De loin en loin, ' hère and there.*

3a. enrrài^, *elderly.'

trois iilB et deux filles. The sons were Jacques, Jean, and Pierre ; the daughters Jeanne and Catherine. But the latest researches seem to indicate that Catherine was older than Jeanne, and that sbe had married and was dead when Jeanne left Domremy.

5. quelque chose de doux, de fort et de pur, * an air of gentleness, strength and purity.*

la. llarcey or Maxey^ a village near Domremy, whose inhabitants were Buxgundians in politics. The children of Marcey used to fight those of Domremy, according to the évidence at the trial of Jeanne d'Arc.

14. une terreur... s'emparant, the 'accusative absolute' construction, answering to the Latin ablative absolute. Eve §118.

15. du c6té du village, *towards the village.' The genitive is used to express neamess ox approach. Eve § 131.

16. en effet, 'as a matter of fact.' 19. permit de voir, * let them see.'

qu'il ne s'agissait que de, ' that there was nothing more important than,' literally, * that there was only question of.'

ao. qui en poursuivaient un autre à coups de pierre, * foUowing another boy and pelting him with stones.' en refers to garçons,

15. pour £Edre rebrousser chemin aux assaillants, qui reprirent» en courant, la route de llarcey, ' to make the assailants tum tail and run back along the Marcey road.' Hère aux assaillants is the dative of the agent, and is équivalent \.o par les assaillants. Eve § 115, Obs. 3.

30. si à propos, < so luckily,' or ' in such a timely manner.'

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T. qu'avaient donc ces damnés malandrins à te poursuivre 7 ' why were those fascals running after you?' literally, *what then had those rascals (i.e. what ailed the rascals) to pursue you?* The infinitive with à expresses the object of interest. Eve § 203 (4).

4. le duo Philippe. Philip tbe Good, Duke of Burgundy, ruled 1419— 1467. He at first took the English side in the war, to revenge his father's murder, but in 1435 went over to Charles VII, and decided the issue of the contest.