aspre, modem French, âpre

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1. II, eux trois cents, '* just three hundred of them." 1. 15. "«« grand hu,*^ **a great uproar." Hu is a word formed

firom the sound of shouting, as in hue and cry, A«rrah, ^i^zzah.

1. 34* saigné du nez. Literally, '*bled from the nose ;*' i.e. "feigned

sickness,*' been a malingerer. It is an allusion to the practice of cowards

who drew blood from the nose in order to prétend they had been

wounded.

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I. 33. Cent nouvelles, The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, a collection of "merry stories " of the mediaeval type, mostly rather coarse, were

told and written down to amuse Louis while in exile at Genappe, as Dauphin.

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1. 13. Aux Mineurs^ "at the church of the Friars Minors," as Franciscan friars were often called.

1. 16. à la Saint-Hubert, "on St Hubert's Day," Nov. çth. The Word is féminine becausey^/^ is understood.

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