The Ten Parliaments of France — les dix Parlements de France.
☞ These are only supreme Courts of Judicature both for civil and criminal causes, and they take their names from the places where they are fixt, viz., the Parliament of Paris, in the Isle of France; of Toulouse, in Languedoc; Bourdeaux, in Guienne; Aix, in Provence; Grenoble, in Dauphiné; Dijon, in Burgundy; Rouen, in Normandy; Rennes, in Brittany; Pau, in Bearn, and Metz, in Lorrain.
In the French-English part we discover:—
Badaut — a silly man, a Parisian (in a burlesk sense).
Turning to the English-French part we find:—
Cockney — un Badaut de Londres.
☞ This word is applied only to one born within the sound of Bow-bell, that is, within the City of London, and came first (according to Minshew), out of this tale. A citizen’s son riding with his father out of London into the country, and being utterly ignorant how corn grew or cattel increased, asked when a horse neighed what he did; his father answered the horse doth neigh. Riding further, the son heard a cock crow, and said, Doth the cock neigh too? Hence, by way of jeer, he was called Cockneigh. But Cambden takes the etymology of Cockney from the Thames called of old time Cockney at London. And others say, the little brook, which runs by Turn-hole or by Turn-mill Street, was anciently so called.
A Bowling Green. Parterre uni de gazons ou l’on joué a la Boule comme sur un tapis verd. Et c’est de ces Bowling-Greens d’Angleterre qu’est le mot de Boulingrin en France, qui signifie un parterre de gazons.
Pudding — un Boudin.
☞ Il faudroit être cuisinier pour decrire ici toutes les sortes de Boudin qui se font en Angleterre. . . . Boyled Puddings — Baked (or, Pan) Puddings. Les uns et les autres se font avec de la fleur de farine, du suif de beuf, du lait, des ceufs, et des raisins sec ou des raisins de Corinthe. II y en a qui se distinguent par quelque autre ingrediens qu’on y met, et d’autres qui se font d’une different maniere au rest, c’est un plat d’Angleterre, à quoi les Etrangers s’ accoutument facilement.
To Thank. Il faut remarquer sur ce mot une manière Angloise. C’est que quand on demande en Anglois a un ami comment il se porte, la reponse est ordinairement Very well, I thank ye (Fort bien, je vous remercie) C’est ce qu’ on exprime ordinairement en François en ces mots, Fort bien, graces a Dieu — Fort bien, pour vous servir, ou, a votre service. Cependant on trouvera l’expression Angloise assez juste et raisonnable, si l’on considère que le Remerciment que s’y fait est par rapport à la bonté qu’on a de s’enquerir de notre santé.
Beef-Eater. Mangeur de beuf. C’est ainsi qu'on appelle par derision les Yeomen of the Gard dans la Cour d’Angleterre qui sont des Gardes à peu près comme les ceut Suisses de France. Et on leur donne ce nom là, parcequ’ à la Cour ils ne vivent que de beuf, par opposition à ces Colleges d’Angleterre ou les écoliers ne mangent que du mouton.
Although the following specific is inserted in the French department, it was probably suggested by the English climate:—
| Pomme cuite, ou rotie au feu, a baked apple. | |
| L’experience nous apprend tous les jours que la chair d’une pomme cuite, mise chaudement sur les yeux rouges et enflammés, est presque l’unique remede à ce mal. | Experience shews us daily that the pulp of a rosted apple, put hot on bloud-shed and inflamed eyes, is almost the only remedy for this evil. |
Under the verb écorcher, he has these phrases:—
| Il ecorche un peu de Latin. | He speaks broken Latin; he speaks it little — has a little smattering of it. |
| Ecorcher les Auteurs. | To understand Authors very little; or, to translate them ill. |
In another place he has the phrase, to speak broken English (ecorcher l’Anglois, le parler mal).
I fear that the following phraseological sentence must have been suggested by what he saw in England:— “If an ass do but speak once, as Balaam’s did, we wonder; but let a man have every part of a beast, wallow in drunkenness, go upon all-four, or lose his speech together with his legs, ’tis a thing scarce taken notice of.”
M. Miége’s knowledge and experience as a French Protestant appear in the following entries in his Great Dictisnary:—
Edict, un Edit, as, The Edict of Nantes, which was made in favour of the Protestants of France, called (and intended to be) unrepealable, and yet lately repealed.
La Chambre Mipartie, in a town in France, was the same as A Chamber of the Edict.
Chambres de l’Edit (ou, de l’Edit de Nantes). Courts of Judicature, formerly established in divers good towns of France, in the Huguenots’ behalf, one-half of the judges being Protestants, and the other half Papists; [for which reason they were sometimes called chambres miparties.]
