Reference to the famous cordon bleu, cordon bleu, the insignia of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit, France's oldest chivalric order. the insignia of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit, France's oldest chivalric order.

15.

The French, at war with the Spanish since 1622, were campaigning to retake Flanders from their control.

16.

Reference to Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), powerful prime minister of France who sometimes attended the theater incognito.

17.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, n.o.bility (usually minor n.o.bility) often sat on the stage, at its sides.

18.

That is, full moon; a reference to Montfleury's famous rotundity.

19.

The personnel of a seventeenth-century theater included a guard charged with keeping order.

20.

Final stanza of a ballad.

21.

Name of an ill-bred dog in a fable (book VIII, fable 24) by the French poet Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695).

22.

One of the heroes of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers. The Three Musketeers.

23.

Thus pa.s.ses worldly glory (Latin).

24.

In Greek mythology, a satyr-like creature and follower of Dionysus, the wine G.o.d.

25.

Reference to Pierre Corneille's t.i.te t.i.te et et Berenice Berenice (1670), the story of t.i.tus, who succeeded his father Vespasian as Roman emperor from A.D. 79-81. (1670), the story of t.i.tus, who succeeded his father Vespasian as Roman emperor from A.D. 79-81.

26.

A sort of governess or chaperone, often advanced in years, responsible for overseeing the conduct of a young woman.

27.

Humorous formation based on the Latin t.u.r.dus t.u.r.dus (meaning "thrush") and (meaning "thrush") and vinaticus vinaticus (suggesting "drunk"). (suggesting "drunk").

28.

Sweet Italian liqueur made of roses and orange flowers.

29.

Literally, "having a pointed nose" (Italian); nickname of the Roman family Scipio.

30.

The caesura is the natural pause in a line of poetry; hemistich is the term for each of the two equal halves of the line.

31.

Francois Malherbe, French poet (1555-1628) whose theoretical writings contributed much to French cla.s.sicism.

32.

In Greek myth, the poet and musician Orpheus was devoured by the Maenads, female devotees of Dionysus, the wine G.o.d; they were also known as Bacchantes, after Bacchus, as the Romans called Dionysus. Term of obloquy; antecedent of today's "p.i.s.sant."

33.

Name of a silly person.

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