Que l'homme au ciel s'égare ou qu'il fanatise
Avec la fauve odeur des bûchers qu'il attise.
(_Religions et Religion_.)
Nor must the strange well-known line in _La Bouche d'Ombre_ be
forgotten
Le fauve Univers est le forçat de Dieu.
_Fauve_ is always used of what is dark and gloomy, just as
_vermeil_ is always applied to what is bright and pleasant.
_cimier_. See note on LE MARIAGE DE ROLAND.
_mélusine_. A heraldic figure, half woman, half serpent, bathing
in a basin. Taken from the name of a fairy, celebrated in the folklore
of Poitou.
_alérion_, a heraldic figure, representing an eagle without beak or
claws.
_le manche d'une guitare_ is the small end.
_bourguignotte_, a small helmet without throat-piece, so called
because it was first used by the Burgundians.
_Diane éblouissait le pâtre: a reference to the `old sweet mythos,'
as Browning calls it, of Diana, the goddess of the Moon, stooping
from heaven to kiss the shepherd Endymion, as he lay asleep on
Mount Latmos.
_Rhodope_, the wife of Haemus, king of Thrace, who was changed
into a mountain because she thought herself more beautiful than Hera.
1. 839. The allusions are to the quarrels between the Greek and
Roman Churches.
_galoubet_. A little wind instrument in shape like a flageolet, with
three holes. It was played with the left hand, while the right beat
a tambourine. It was peculiar to Languedoc and Provence.
_marche_, German _Mark_, military frontier.
_L'idée._ In the original edition of 1859 the word was L'épée.
_Josaphat._ The valley of Josaphat or Jehosaphat is between
Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, and according to both Jewish and
Moslem
tradition is to be the place of the Last Judgment. This tradition
may be based on Joel iii. 12, or on the meaning of the word Josaphat,
which is, 'Jehovah will judge,' or on both.
_goules_, from Arabic _ghul_. English _ghoul_. The creatures who,
according to Eastern superstition, devour dead bodies.
_lamies_, from Lat. _lamia_, a fabulous being possessing the head of
a woman and the body of a sea-serpent, which was supposed to devour
children.
_en rupture de ban_. _Rompre le ban_ is to set at defiance a decree
of banishment, the punishment for which was death.
_un dogue en arrêt_. The name _dogue_ is given to a kind of large
dog, akin to a bloodhound, but the term is not correctly used here,
as _en arrêt_ means _pointing_.
_vermeille_. See note on AYMERILLOT.