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Altesses Roy ales. The Duke and Duchess of Orleans

Page 20. — 1. Seigneur. Psalm lxxi, 16.

2. historian. Quintus Curtius, probably of the first century, and author of a Life of Alexander the Great. In Book VIII, ch. 9 he says: " Venatus maximus labor est animalia figere.”

Page 21* — 1 . Caesari, etc. From Pliny's Natural History, VII, 25. The quotation omits after sit the words praeter supra dicta.

Page 22 * — 1. cecceur. The queen's heart, evidently placed in the chapel before the orator. See note 2 for page 9.

2. tout poudre. Notice that tout is an adverb, and modifies a noun which has the qualifying meaning of an adjective.

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