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sceut = sut We hâve modemized the spelling as a rule

Pagre 114. — I. cettuy = <r^.

2. Richard, called ** sans Peur," duke of Normandy in the tenth century (1996).

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3. Cette tristesse évangélique has become a f amiliar quotation. In succeeding paragraphs La Bruyère asserts that the bar had become the model for the pulpit and was responsible for much of the latter's décline. He prefers homilies to éloquent phrases and Word pictures ; cf. no. 2.

Page 115« — I. Le Maître, Pucelle et Fourcroy, celebrated lawyers, Antoine Lemaître (t 1658), Claude Pucelle and Bonaventure Fourcroy (t 1691).

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