Dame, oui 1 decidedly

7. à travers son loup, through the lace of lier black velvet mask (so called because, like the wolf ! it frightened at first little children, M'ho had probably heard the taie of Little Red Riding Hood). Translate : ' Les femmes parurent ne plus se soucier de leur visage, et commencèrent à le cacher ; elles prirent un loup, et n'allèrent plus que masquées dans la rue, aux promenades, en visite, et même à l'église (St. Foix, Esscds Hisioi'iques sur Paris (1754), iv. 16).

18. Compiègne, an ancient town built by the Gauls (pop. about 12,000) on the river Oise, about 65 miles N.E. of Paris ; its splendid palace, built by Louis XIV.,

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Louis XV., and Louis XVL, adjoins a magnificent forest of 36,000 acres. Joan of Arc was made prisoner there after lier triuraph at Orléans (1429), and a statue was raised to lier in 1860, on tlie very spot where she was captured.