Leur gros, ‘ their main body

19S. 4. Son fillier. Apparently advocates had spécial places in the hall of the Palais where they were to be found. Such and such a pillar would be of course an easy direction to clients.

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Bureau d'adresse, a kind of general enquiry office, founded in Paris in 1 630 by one Théophile Renaudot.

Orviétan, a favourite drng sold in the streets by quacks. With a capital O ît would mean a particular seller of it who was well known at the time.

Note that he preferred black letter and wooden binding because they were cheap. Times hâve changed.

Glatis, ‘ tassels.’

Il is the lover who overhears the conversation.

Moulmeau is the giant, cowardly and brutal. His talking ram is, after the fashion of fairy taies, an enchanted prince.

L Oncle, the Cardinal. Le Neveu, Henry IV.

. Les religionnaires, the old Huguenots.

. Cheux here and elsewhere = ‘ chez.’ üela bonne, in Retz’ curions and incorrect, but graphie fashion of speech, refers to honte. ‘Mazarin was not the man to De honcstly ashamed of anything.’

Revêtir in the military sense, « covered with a revêtement,' embanked with earth.’

Cruel. The duke of Orléans was accused of having poisoned more than one of those who stood between him and the throne. The accusation, which remains on record in the venomons lampoons of Lagrange-Chancel, is destitute of a shadow of proof.

Une inépuisable, sc. ressource.

Jetez-vous, etc., a lively idiom for ‘to give up ’

Marée, literally, ‘ tide ,’ is also used for what cornes with the tide, that is to say, ‘ fresh fish.’

Aux vingt-cinquièmes, a lively exaggeration. Not the king’s table nor the second table, but the twenty-fifth.

Jeter son bonnet par-dessus les moulins, generally means, ‘to commit extravagances,’ ‘to defy Mrs. Grundy.’ Here however, it seems to hâve a somewhat different sense, and to mean to ‘take the risk.*

Cousin , M. de Coulanges.

Molition. The technical sense of this word is ‘ pardon ; ’ and

°“fhl the,Jok* 15 not extremely clear, it would seem that the duke referred to the fact that coining was and is a ™ offence. ^

Garde-robe in this sense = ‘ household.’

Bouts carrés, either generally ‘ trimmings,’ or a technical terni ot falconry.

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