Quand Tartarin allait au Cercle

1. chevalier du Temple. The Knights of the Temple were an order instituted in 11 18 for the defence of Palestine against the Turks and Saracens ; the order was disbanded in 131 2.

2. l'infidèle. This term refers hère to the Saracens ; the Saracens applied the same epithet to their Christian opponents.