Aigues-Mortes. The town is no longer a seaport

Page 33. — line 20. pastoureaux, shepherds.

Page 34. — line i. Etablissements de Saint-Louis, the laws of Saint Louis.

Page 35. — line 7. yilaiin, peasant, not noble.

1. 26. Vêpres Siciliennes. The massacre began when the vespers were sounded.

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Page 36. — line i6. Avignon, on the Rhône. The popes resided there from 1309 to 1376. There is a beautiful palace of the popes.

Page 37. — line 23. le Hutin = mutùi, quarrehome, stubborn.

1. 26. serfs de la glèbe, serfs attached to the soil and transferred withit.

Page 40. — line 22. mignons. The efîeminate favorites and courtiers of Henry III were called niipions.

Page 41. — line 14. la vierge de Domrémy, Joan of Arc.

I. 16. Écorcheurs, name given to bands of bandits and adventurers in the fîfteenth century.

Page 42. — line 6. fleurs de lis, pronounced H; emblem of the Kings of France.

Page 44. — line 3. Prince Noir, called the Black Prince from the color of his armor.

II. 17, 18. Jacques Bonhomme, a name given to the common people, to ail that were not noble; hence Jacquerie means an insurrection of the lower classes.

Page 45. — line 3. Ponthieu, a county in Picardy, northem part of France.

1. 16. Carnot. Lazare Carnot, a patriot at the time of the French Révolution, called the organizer ofvictory.

Page 46. — line 5. connétable, comes stabuH. The chief officer in the French army. The office was abolished by Richelieu.