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Page 12, 1. 23. La dame de Beaujeu. See "Historical Notes", '3-

Page 13, 1. 2. Louis d'Orléans. See "Historical Notes", 12. It was said that he would hâve preferred the king's eldest daughter to Jeanne, vvhom the king forced him to marry.

8. Chaque hameau. Note that the h being aspirate, "chaque" must be read as two distinct syllables, " cha-que".

10. A grand'peine. In early French adjectives derived from Latin adjectives that had only one form for masculine and féminine (grandis, crudelis, regalis), also had one form for both genders (grand, cruel, royal). In the fourteenth century an e was added to form the féminine, by analogy with the majority of adjectives and nouns. The word grand, however, remained in its original form in some very common phrases, grand peine grand mère, grand route, grand faim, grand peur. The grammarians of the sixteenth century put in an apostrophe to indicate the supposed omission of the féminine ending, grand'peine, grand'mère, &c.