le duc de Fenthièvre, illegitimate son of Louis XTV

31. Mesdames, the king's eldest daughter, and the wife of his eldest brother.

8.— 10. rentrée des brevets, the réception of the Enights of the Holy Ghost.

20, 21. grand aumônier, ' great almoner,' i.e. the king's chaplain who distributed alms for him, and said the mass ; les aumôniers de quartier, ' the quarterly almoners,' i.e. the royal chaplains who served three months by turns.

9.— 32. le cordon bleu, ' the blue cord,' with its cross attached, was the badge of the Order of the Holy Ghost.

10«— 10, 11. quflBsnmiis, deus omnipoteiu (Lat.), ' We pray, O Lord Almighty 1 '