les enfants perdus^ "the scap^races

1. 25. tonsurés et non tonsurés. Ecclesiastics were supposed to receive the tonsure; but many clàimed clérical privilèges who were not shaven.

1. 27. La Ménîppée, The ScUire Ménippée appeared in 1594* It was a long satire, written by seven authors, on the Catholic League, and had much influence in favour of Henry of Navarre.

le Lutrin^ a satirical poem of Boileau, published 1676.

Voltaire^ the great French satirist, was born at Paris 1694.

1. 33. au temps de la Ligue^ the Catholic League, formed in 1584 to keep Henry of Navarre from succeeding to the throne.

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1. 4. la granf confrérie t for grancP confrérie^ "the great con* fratemity or guild." aux bourgeois^ belonging to, i.e. **of the citizens."

1. 5. quarteniers, cinquanteniers, were police officers chosen by the districts of Paris to keep order. The quartenier was the officer of a quarticTt the dnquantenier of a cinquantaine or half-hundred, as the centenier was of the hundred.

1. 10. leurs mains normandes, The Normans hâve always enjoyed a réputation for sharpness and acquisitiveness in France.