I. je le puis dire: see note, p

3. dessein, 'design,' ' project,' and dessin, ' drawing,' were originally the same word, and as late as the seventeenth century dessin was often spelt dessein.

16. il me vint : in their literal sensé verbs of motion require the préposition à with a disjunctive pronoun ; e.g. — il vint à moi, ' he came to me,' 18. ce parti même ; what would ce même parti mean ?

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