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aussi, 'infact

nul ne peut-il dire. Hère the order is inverted, as in an interrogative sentence, after aussi. See Eve § 1 1 a.

33. si la Trinité... n'en prend souci, *if the Trinity...should not think on them.* The verb after si hère refers to future time, but is in the présent, as xi is never followed by the future. Eve § 276.

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I. est-il venu, the order of the sentence is inverted 2Siçx peut-être, Eve § lia.

4. Une nouvelle Judith, a comparison often made, as Judith had delivered her people by killing the Assyrian gênerai, Holofernes.

8. par Tuniversité de Poitiers. Jeanne was questioned by the bishops and leamed men at Poitiers, who agreed on the genuineness of her mission.

9. elle a ftlt lever le siège aux An^^lais, 'She has made the English raise the si^e.' Note the construction oi faire and the infinitive. Eve § 115 Obs. i and Obs. 3.

la. Loèhes, a small town on the Indre, 35 miles south-east of Tours. Charles VII occupied the castle» which was afterwards made into a prison by Louis XL

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