que nous ont servi . . : see note, p

12. et inutiles à tout autre usage : a manifestly erroneous assertion. Distinguish between —

toute autre chose, ' any other thing, ' and

tout autre chose, ' quite another thing. '

16. cela n'en était : note this idiomatic use of en, and cf. — il n'en est pas plus fier, ' he is none the prouder for it.' 22. Mahomet, the founder of Islamisrn, was born in Mecca in 571, and died at Médina in 632.