il était de mes amis : cf

un de mes amis, ' a friend of mine. ' il est des nôtres, ' he is one of our party. ' 22. de mes pensions : we should now rather leave out the préposition de and put the person paid in the dative.

le bel ordre : note this exclamative use of the article, and cf. — •

Ok / le beau ciel! ' Oh ! what a beautiful sky ! '

40. 4. pour détruire l'hérésie : an allusion to the revocation of

the edict of Nantes and the persécutions directed against the Protestants during the reign of Louis XIV. Many thousands of Huguenots, not wishing to give up their faith, were put to death or driven out of France.