pour le fait de quoi, ' for which larceny

31. faux saulnier, ' a siiiuj^j;ler of sait.' The manufacture of sait is an important iiidustry in Lower Brittany, especially near tlie coa»t, as any one travelling from St. Nazalire to tlie Croisic may see. The sait mounds from a distance bave the appearance of so niany cami>-teuts pitched iu tbe open.

82. Dame, ' Wcll, you see ! ' This word is ail that reniainsof the mediœval exclamation Damne Deu ! (from Lat. Domine-deus ! i.e. Heiyneur Dieu .'^ The correct sensé of Dame! is tberefore 'liord.' The exclamation is

Qmtrevingt-Treize.

cliiefly nsod in ÎTormatiiIy and Brittany, and is seldnm met wîth south of Paria, lloniiniis waa reduoed to domnue by the Uomana themselves : the form is found in Beveral inscriptions under tlie Empire. Domine similarly becomes domne, whence dame! (interjiction), just as ddmna became dame (anbetantive fem.). Tliia is the nnly instance of o aceenteil becotning an a, althongh there are several exaniples of the atonio or short o being obanged ioto a. Cf. domieellm = dumuiieau; loctuta = langoutU (a ony» fisli).