Bataille de dames
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[Footnote 148: #pour acquit de conscience#, _to ease
my conscience_.]
[Footnote 149: #placards#, cupboards with a suggestion of
hiding-chambers, such as were built in the thick walls and enormous
chimneys (#cheminées#) of many ancient houses both on the Continent
and in England.]
[Footnote 150: #garçons de ferme#, farm-hands.--#hommes de
peine#, laborers, here perhaps the stable-boys and grooms.]