[111] Non-see´ (n nasal).
[112] Boss´ū-ā. Born 1627, died 1704.
[113] Shā-tō´ Te-er-ree´.
[114] Born 1621, died 1695. His Fables were published in 1668. They have been translated into almost every European language.
[115] Say.
[116] Bosh, term of contempt used by the French for the Germans, and meaning fools or blockheads.
[117] Ma´sh-e-ray.
[118] The French Senate is the upper chamber of the French Parliament, and roughly corresponds with our House of Lords. The members, however, are not peers, for republican France does not possess a peerage.
[119] Ay-per´nay, near the left bank of the Marne. It is a great centre of the champagne trade. The wine is stored in vaults hewn out of the chalk on which the town is built.
[120] £7,000 (£1 = 25 francs).