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.
SULTAN MOURAD.