Cydias, Fontenelle

245. 21. Fourrures et mortiers , the insignia of Noblesse de Robe.

247. 14. Poêle. This of course, like the German Stube, which doubtless suggested it, means not a stove, but a room with a stove.

26I.27. Compagnie, the Academy.

272. 14. This extract is printed exactly from contemporary éditions. It is the last which will be so given.

23. In the French of to-day the contraction Me. is reserved for the official title (Maître) of advocates ; here of course it = Madame.