Claustration, ' seclusion

10. ce n'était déjà plus, * it had already ceased to be.' 14. la Touraine, a province of Central France, lying south of the Loire, round the city of Tours.

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4. allumer du feu, *kindle a fire.' The partitive article is hère used in French, as * some ' is understood. Eve § 33 a,

5. s'enfoncer au, ' plunge into.' 19. de la diète, * of a strict diet'

23. le livre de Chauliac. Gui de Chauliac was a celebrated physician at Lyons and Avignon, and in 1363 wrote his Inventarium^ 2l. sort of dictionary of the médical knowledge of the time.

24. La Bo<die, a village on the river Yonne, not far from Auxerre.

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21. selon Ctallien, *according to Galen.' Claudius Galenus was a celebrated Greek physician, bom at Pergamus 130 or 131 A.D. He left a number of médical works which were used as text-books in the Middle Ages.

27. la seule qui convint. After a relative, whose antécédent is a superlative or U seul &c., the verb is in the subjunctive. Eve § 252.

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6. qui s'était trouvé sur son passage, 'who happened to be in his way.'

9. Connaîtrais-tu, ' why, do you know,' the conditional is used to ask a question, expressing a doubt. Eve § 178 (i).

33. Si Uen, «ne Tolol, * right, and hère is/ literally, * so tnily, that hère is.'

mon ûrère Pierre. Pierre, one of Jeanne's brothers, was not with her on her joumey to Chinon, but joined her afterwards and was ennobled by Charles VIL