Bataille de dames
Page 17.
[Footnote 58: #par état#, by my profession as _maître des
requêtes_.]
[Footnote 59: #tiens de#, take after, or inherit from.]
Page 18.
[Footnote 60: #pointe#, like #fougueux# and #enfourcher# below,
is in this sense (dawns, rises) rhetorical and poetic.]
[Footnote 61: #emporté#, carried the day.]
[Footnote 62: #provoquer#, i.e., to a duel such as became almost
epidemic in France in the years that followed Waterloo (1815).]
ACT I. SCENE 10.