A merveille, Excellently well

7. vertugadins, may be rendered hoop skirts, though these were not yet known. The vertugadin was a wadded skirt stiffened by fishbone, withe, or cane. — f albelas, furbelows.

Page 19. — 1. Une fenêtre . . . Louvois. The story is that Louis XIV. one day found fault with a window in his favorite palace Trianon, in the park of Versailles, which so enraged his minister Louvois that the latter decided to stir up another war in order to keep the king away. The story is without a foundation, though formerly found in all the histories, and it was never mentioned in connection with the war of the Spanish succession, but as having led to that of the Palatinate succession, 1 688-1 697.

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