Et le onrienx, ' And the curions part of it is

13. fera bellement arqnebnser monsienr le yioomte, ' will unmistakably bave bis lurdship sbot.' Arquelnae was inttoduced into the language from the Italian in the gizteeuth ountury. The expéditions of Charles VIII., Louis XII , and Francis I. beyond the Alps, and the prolonged sojourn of the French armies in Italy during the early years of the sixteenth century, had made tlie Italian language very familiar to the French. " The brillianoy of arts and letters in the Peninsula," says M. Littré, " attracted meii's uiiuds at tlie very time when the regency of Catherine de Medioi set the fashion of admiring evorything Italian." Heiicn a crowd of hitherto nnknown worrds made their appeanince in the languai^e. Tliis mania for * Italianisms ' roused the wrath of Henri d'Ëstieune, who ezclaimed againat the practiue in no measuretl terins.

14. ne l'est pas fait attendra, * suon foUotved.' Of. U m i»/aU pas prier, ■ He does not require muoh asking.'