l'islamisme, the religion of the Moslems

Page 22. — Une 19. le Tasse, Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), a great Itahan poet, author of "Jérusalem Dehvered."

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1. 30. Alexis. There is an interesting account of the Emperor Alexius Comnenus in Walter Scott's " Count Robert of Paris."

Page 23. — line 8. emblèmes, the beginning of heraldry.

Page 24. — line 14. bourgeois, generally taken to designate the people of the middle class in France; hère it refers to the inhabitants of a town.

Page 25. — line 18. cens et taille, différent kinds of taxes.