il se relève, he releases himself

Page 44, 1. 13. Pâque-Dieu! i.e. "par la Pâque de Dieu", Louis' favourite oath, sometimes spelt Pâques-Dieu. La Pâque, the Passover; Pâques, Easter, usually treated as masculine singular; Pâques est passé, à Pâques prochain. Féminine plural in a few phrases: " Si Noël est vert, les Pâques seront blanches" . In Old French, nouns were inflected, and de was often omitted between two nouns, the second being put in the objective (possessive) case. Cf. Hôtel- Dieu, timbre-poste, garde-chasse.