THE TROUBADOUR

[ErxîAR QuiNET (1803-1875). A voluminous writer of prose and versé on a variety of topi s.] The /roMZ/èr^,' the finder, the inventor,' is the north French form of thc

better known south French word troubadour. 19— jongleurs, in this passage, ' minstrels.' The jongleur was an itinérant minstrel, who, in gênerai, was employed to sing or recite the poetry of the trouvhe his master. Some of the jongleurs also vvrote poetry of their own.

79. 3 or. Used hère in its old sensé of ' now,' referring to time. i6~\' =cheva lier, /"crj is sometimes omitted after jï. sa, 'its.'