le hou-hou delà chouette, 'the cry of the screech-owl

25. Madame Boya e. Tliis was the dnughter of Louis XVI. Tlietitleof Madame, in royal familics, was given either to the ebleat daughtcr of the rt-igiiing snvereign, or of the dauphin, or to the wife of tlie king's «Idest brother, wlio himself bail the title of Monsieur. Cf Bngsuel's Fvneral Oration on Henrietta, Ann of Euglaiid (Henriette d' AnyUterre), Autres» ut Orléans. O nuit désastreuse . . . l ii retentit . . . cette étounaute nouvelle. Madame se uiearl I Madame est morte !

26. Si je connais . . . , ' Know the Tourguc, indeed I Why, I corne from the neiglibourliooii.'

27. de Bohan. The hnuse of de Rohan can be traced hack to the flnt sovereigns of ISrittany. It was diviiled into sevoral branches. The most illustrious bclou of the house was Henri, duc de Bohan. Chicf of the Culviuists, after the death of Henry IV. he withdrew to Venioe, after ths

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taVin^ of La Boclielle, re-entered France later on, took service undor Bichelieu, and died in 1 638. Tlie others menibers of the house are oliiefly remembered for tlieir dissipationa and scandalous lavisUness,