hiûléei glistening as though oiled

4. à piècos emportées, delicately worked, as with a cutting punch (empcrU-pièce).

Page 98. — i. le fruste, le flou et la fleur de coin, a medal on which the inscriptions etc. are effaced is fruste ; a medal of which ail the Unes made in cutting or moulding are filled up even off with one another \sJlou ; a medal f resh as though newly stamped is à fleur de coin.

Page 99. — i. le Petit-Pont, the bridge close by Notre Dame, Connecting the island of the Cité with the left bank of the Seine. It was formerly covered with houses, which were hung with tapestry and pictures on festival days.

2. rue Neuye — Notre-Dame led from the Petit-Pont to the Parvis Notre-Dame. It no longer exists.

3. Callot, Jacques (i 592-1 635), a celebrated draughtsman and engraver.

Page 100. — I. Penfilade, a suite of communicating rooms.

2. planchers de rapport, inlaid flooring\ by rapport is meant pièces of wood which bear " relation '' to one another, fitting into one another.

3. Palais-Royal, built by Richelieu, in 1624, and bequeathed by him to the king.

4. palais L ... 6 ... , probably the résidence of Langlée, who

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has figured hère under the name of Përiandre in '' Des Biens de Fortune/' no. 21, page 41.

5. Luxembourg, built by Marie de Médicis, towards 161 5, on the left bank of the Seine.

6. un tour de lit, curtains hung from the ceiling and draped about a bed.

Pagre 102. — I. plus d'éclat =^ le plus tTéclat, 2< il a décidé de Pinnocence, etc., the trial by combat of the Middle Ages and down to the Renaissance.

3. d'un très grand roi, Richelieu tried to stop duelling and executed several. nobles for engaging in it. Louis XIV foUowed up his work by several edicts against the practice; cf. page 72, note 4.

4, 5. Tigillin qui souffle . . . jette en sable, etc., a débauchée who swallows at a gulp (souffle, jette en sable), a glass of brandy, — Tigillin, Tigellinus, a favorite of Nero and famous for his dissipation. — souffle = avale d*un souffle, The modem coUoquial term is siffler, — jette en sable == modem sable, It means to suddenly swallow, as à molten liquid is suddenly taken up by a sand mould.

Pagre 103* — i. qui le soulèye, which exalts him^ makes him known. For the prevalence of gambling, see page 81, note i.

2. Catulle, Catullus (87-?4S B.C.), Latin poet famous for the élégance of his style.

3. Sarrasin, Jean-François (i 605-1654), a writer of madrigals and Society verse.