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.