Chenonceaux, another château on the Loire

5. le del bleu-de-roi, the light-blue sky. Blue was the favorite color of the kings of France.

6. fleurdelisé de jolis nuages, decorated or flowered with clouds as pretty and white as the royal lilies.

Page 46. — i. François est à l'honneur et à la peine, François is where one gets hardship and honor (i.e., on the field of battle),

2. Louvre, the palace of the Louvre in Paris. It was built and enlarged by generations of French monarchs from the Middle Ages to the present time.

3. rue de Rivoli, one of the finest streets of Paris, on which the Louvre stands. Rivoli, a city of northern Italy, was the scene of one of Napoleon's victories over the Austrians in 1797.