Tout pur: Real

5. Çwe dites-vous de mes canons ? See note p. 17. Some critics

are of opinion that the canons (roUcrs) were a new fashion in Molière's time, and they relate that a Gcrman author, on producing a translation of Les Précieuses ridicidcs, in his ignorance of thc meaning of the word canon, dirccted Mascai-ille to put in his pocket pistols, which he showed while saying: ' Que dites-vous de mes canons ?'