la remise, the recovery [lit. the giving up

8. la fille du duc de Savoie, Marie Louise, second daughter of Victor Amédée IL, Duc de Savoie (1665- 1732), first king of Sardinia, wbo had raarried Anne d'Orléans, nièce of Louis XIV., and whose eldest daughter Adélaïde married Louis XIV. 's eldest

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gi'andsoii (tlio Duc d'Aiijou's eklcr brother), tlie Duc de Bourgogne, father of Louis XV.

16. 1"2. la, you ; the pronoun of tlie 3J j'Ci'son fem. sing. refers to thc noun Altesse.

à Marly, 12 miles "\V. of Paris, 5 miles N. of Versailles, where Louis XIV. had a palace, and where he entertained fewer guests, with less tiresome étiquette, than at Versailles. It was destroj'ed during tlie Révolution.

à Versailles, 15 miles S.W. of Paris. The States- General met there 5th Maj- 1789. The German Empire was proclaimcd in the palace 18th January 1871 ; and the French National Assembly sat there 20tli March 1871.

aux Tuileries. The palace of the Tuileries, begun in 1561 by Catherine de ]\Iedicis and united to the Louvre by Napoléon III. (1851-56), only became the résidence of the sovereign since Louis XV. 's reign. The National Convention, which condemned his grandson and successor Louis XVI. to death, lield its sittings there ; it was destroyed by iire during tlie last struggle of the Commune, 24tli May