enga^aient à la patience, * recommended patience

94. approchée de lui. The genitive is used to express nearness, approach. See Eve § 133.

17. c'est grande piUé, &c. AU through the career of Jeanne d'Arc she expressed her grief at seeing French blood spilt.

a8. bonnes gens. When the adjective immediately preceding gens bas a separate form for the féminine, it is féminine ; in ail other cases the adjective is masculine. See Eve, Accidence § 47.

31. gars, an older form oi garçon. The féminine was the obsolète garce^ * a girl.'

3a. Commercy. Commercy was held for the French side by Robert of Saarbruck, an adventurer; but he was forced to go over to the Burgundians in 1424.

33. Verdun. There was a constant petty warfare going on in Lorraine, whose Duke took the Burgundian side, but often wavered. No particular historical battle is alluded to hère.

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I. Pierrelitte, a village in the department of the Meuse, about 10 miles from Commercy.

on répétait» *people were always saying,' literally, *tliey were repeating.'