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CHAPTER XII.
SCOTLAND, IRELAND, AND ENGLAND.
Let us note a circumstance. Josiana had le tour.
This is easy to understand when we reflect that she was, although
illegitimate, the queen's sister--that is to say, a princely personage.
To have le tour--what does it mean?
Viscount St. John, otherwise Bolingbroke, wrote as follows to Thomas
Lennard, Earl of Sussex:--
"Two things mark the great--in England, they have le tour; in France,
le pour."
When the King of France travelled, the courier of the court stopped at
the halting-place in the evening, and assigned lodgings to his Majesty's
suite.
Amongst the gentlemen some had an immense privilege. "They have le
pour" says the Journal Historique for the year 1694, page 6; "which
means that the courier who marks the billets puts 'pour' before their
names--as, 'Pour M. le Prince de Soubise;' instead of which, when he
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