--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_.