Bohémiens, *gipsies

30. Encore la noblesse. . .échappait-elle à ces pertes, < the nobility ...escaped even thèse losses.'

3a. la curée du siècle précédent. During the anarchy of the i4th century, and especially during the minority of Charles VI, the nobles had plundered the public revenues as well as private property.

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1, tout Charges. The adjective being masculine, tout is not inflected. Eve § 40.

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3. leurs dbaïuniires, the shoes with turned-up and twisted points mentioned in the note to p. 27, 1. 6.

6. mit. . .à mdme de connaître, ' enabled. . .to observe.' 27. s'était fiait, *had happened.'

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