meugle = mugit

3. des fourrures, f urred cloaks wom on occasions by graduâtes of a university, the kind of fur corresponding to their degrees.

4. hoquetons, coats wom by the archers, or police, of the municipal courts.

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Page 89. — i. louable, La Bruyère makes the same comment in no. 39 of this chapter.

2. phénix de la poésie chantante, Philippe Quinault (1635- 1688), playwright and librettist. Boileau had judged him severely at first and had afterwards relented somewhat.