Birmingham.
La Fleur des Saints.—To Molière's Le Tartufe (Act I. Sc. 2.) occur the following lines:
"Le traitre, I'autre jour, nous rompit de ses mains
Un mouchoir qu'il trouva dans une Fleur des Saints,
Disant que nous mêlions, par un crime effroyable,
Avec la sainteté les parures du diable."
Can any of your readers inform me what Fleur des Saints was? Was it a book? If so, what were its contents?
C. P. G.
Oasis.—Can any correspondent inform me of the correct quantity of the second syllable of this word? In Smith's Geographical Dictionary it is marked long, while Andrews' Lexicon gives it short, neither of them giving any reason for their respective quantities.
T.