souris,/., ' mouse ' ; m. [poet.), 'smile

13. I. à se plaindre et faire . . : the préposition should now be

repeated h^iora faire.

2. huis : obsolète for porte, but still used in the expressions à huis clos (law), ' with closed doors,' (fig. ) ' privately ' ; le huis clos, ' trial with closed doors,' ' privacy," ' secrecy.'

7. par la raison que . . : i.e. parce que . . 13. ceci : for cela, which is generally used when referring to what précèdes.

Henri IV, son of Anthony of Bourbon and of Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre., was born at Pau in 1553 and brought up in the Protestant faith. Compelled to resort to arms to assert his claims to the crown, as the Catholics refused to acknowledge him, he defeated the army of the League, first at Coutras, and then at Arques and Ivry, but was obliged to raise the siège of Paris. Having abjured Calvinism, he was at length formally crowned in

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1594. After the peace of Vervins, concluded with Spain in 1598, he granted the famous edict of Nantes, which secured religions liberty to the Protestants, and, with the help of his prime minister, Sully, restored the prosperity of the kingdom and its finances, wasted by forty years' civil war. He was stabbed in 1610 by a fanatic named Ravaillac.

13. 23. la lecttire, 'reading, ' ' perusal ' ; la conférence {leçon),

' lecture. '