I. Nons antres, gens de guerre, * we soldiers

à ça, < in that.' For dative see Eve § 144 Obs. i.

8. le l>&tard de Vaums, an adventurer who held Meaux for the Dauphin, and was notorious for his cruelty. Henry V captured Meaux in 1433 and executed Vaurus, hanging his body on the elm where he used to hang his victims.

11. le sire de Flavl. Guillaume de Flavi was a man of many crimes, but modem historians agrée in thinking that he did not betray Jeanne d'Arc at Compi^;ne. In fact he was the enemy of the party at

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the French court that opposed Jeanne. He was murdered by his wife, whose father he had killed.

i8. CtonMi, ooniii, *so-so.' The usual, but less correct, way of writing this phrase is couci-coud, It is derived from the Italian ofsi-cosi.

2$. mu, ' but for.'

vu damné de Tag&bond, 'a eursed vagabond.' The genitive hère is used to dénote apposition, as in English, ' a fool of a fellow ' &c. Eve§ 139 a.