d'abord que, dès que

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6. caution bourgeoise, good security^ the security of a reliable citizen. The best standard of business integrity was set by the middle class.

Page 21. — I. Amilcar, in Mile de Scudéry's Cléliây is a lover bright, cheerful, obliging and very affable to ladies. The poet Sarrasin was the model for this character. See Victor Cousin^ La Société Française au XV J J* Siècle, II, pp. 192-196. ^

2. prud'homiei ingenuousness, that is, ' lack of treacherous inten tions.*

3. après s'être peigné. Mascarille is here following one of the express injunctions of the "Laws of Good Manners" (Les Lois de la galanterie, second edition, 1658).