DEUXIÈME PARTIE. NOTES

levied by Charles VII, to keep up an army, and wa^; bi^rdensome. It was so called from the tat/lâ or fa/fy on which the account was kçpt.

^es gabelles, the sait tax. Sait was a govemment monopoly then in France as it now is in India.

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I. 14. la châsse, **the reliquary.'* St Geneviève was the patron saint of Paris.

1. 17. sermon de croisade^ '*a crusade sermon'' — so called because the preaching of crusades went on long aller crusades had ceased, and without any effect.