III.

--35. =en fit le tour=, went around it.

--36. =Périgord=, a province in the South of France, corresponding to the present Department of the Dordogne.

--37. "Having as many quarters" (in the shield) is equivalent to saying that they had as long a line of ancestors.

--38. The Montmorencys were already celebrated in French history in the middle of the tenth century.

--39. =gentilshommes=, pronounced jantizome.

--40. =messe du roi= was a mass in which the king took part.

--41. =Marie Antoinette=, wife of Louis XVI., beheaded in 1793.

--42. =office en musique=, a mass in which the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei were sung wholly or in part.

--43. =on eût dit d'un enfant tenté == on aurait dit que c'était=, etc.

--44. =que=, whether.

--45. =le tabouret= was a stool on which duchesses were permitted to sit in the presence of the king.

--46. =Louis XI.=, king of France, reigned from 1461 to 1483.

--47. =fallût-il=, even if it were necessary.

--48. =présentateur=, introducer.

--49. The =Princess of Lamballe= was a friend of queen Marie Antoinette. She was killed in the massacres of September, 1792.

--50. =brevet=, patent of nobility.

--51. =débraillé=, indifference.

--52. =projet d'acte=, rough draft of the contract.

--53. =en=, by her. This pronoun usually refers to things, not to persons.

--54. =espagnolette=, window-fastening.

--55. =Bastille=, a celebrated castle or fortress at Paris, built in the latter part of the XIV. century; long used for the confinement of prisoners of state; destroyed by the Revolutionists, July 14, 1789.

--56. =Philemon and Baucis=, in Greek mythology, a husband and wife noted for their mutual affection.

--57. =lettres de cachet= (sealed letters), warrants for imprisonment given out by kings of France before the Revolution. The favorites of the king often obtained them signed in blank, and could then insert the name of anyone whom they disliked or wished to put out of the way.

--58. =ne fût-ce que=, were it only.

--59. =j'en fais cas comme d'une prise de tabac=, I don't consider them of more consequence than a pinch of snuff.