A very valuable musical manuscript, by Guillaume de Machault, who was valet de chambre to Phillippe-le-Bel, in 1307, has been discovered in the royal library at Paris.

I came, an't like your Seigniorship, to Madam the Governante here, to serve her in the Quality of a Fille de Chambre to the young Ladies.

A Fille de Chambre!

; you, I believe, have been Fille de Chambre to some young Cavaliers? Har.

Most true, Seignior; why shou'd not the Cavaliers keep Filles de Chambre, as well as great Ladies Valets de Chambre? Doct.

Most true, Seignior; why shou'd not the Cavaliers keep Filles de Chambre, as well as great Ladies Valets de Chambre? Doct.

After his relapse, and until just before his death, the princess never suffered any English, man or woman, above the degree of valet-de-chambre to see him; nor did she herself see any one of her household until absolutely necessary.

G Ecuyer, un des Gentilshommes de la Chambre du jeune Chevalier de S. George & la seule personne de sa

The guests then wash their hands, say grace, and pass into the chambre de parement or drawing-room.

They subsequently bring the guests wine and épices de chambre, after which each retires home.

" A silly, affected, typical French valet-de-chambre.

The King begged to see specimens of their skill in archery, and was so delighted therewith, that he made William a "gentleman of fe," and the other two "yemen of his chambre."

The king, wishing to see a specimen of their shooting, was so delighted at their skill that he made William a "gentleman of fe," and the other two "yemen of his chambre.

'We are all of flesh and blood,' she said, 'but in the same situation the fille de chambre conducts herself differently to the femme de qualité.'

Before leaving Paris for Nancy and the eastern frontier, I left a portmanteau and a rug in a hotel where I had become friendly with the manager and the assistant manager, with the hall porter, the liftman, and the valet de chambre.

" "And then the valet de chambre.

"The present valet de chambre is a bald-headed man, and clean- shaven, monsieur.

After fruitless efforts, she turned in despair to the valet de chambre behind her chair, and requested him to draw it out, which could only be done by his passing his hand from behind over her shoulder, and across her chest, when, with a desperate effort, he unsheathed the busk.

La chambre du malade était au niveau du sol.

Chambre d'hotel, by Colette, pseud.

GOUDEKET, MAURICE. Chambre d'hotel.

Joan, in her impatience, went one day to Loches, without previous notice, and tapped softly at the door of the king's privy chamber (chambre de re- trait).

CHAMBRE ARDENTE, a name given to certain courts of justice established to try certain cases that required to be sharply dealt with; they were held at night, and even when held in the daytime with lighted torches; a court of the kind was instituted for trial of the Huguenots in 1530, and again in 1680 and 1716.

MAROT, CLEMENT, French poet, born at Cahors; was valet-de-chambre of Margaret of Valois; was a man of ready wit and a satirical writer, the exercise of which often brought him into trouble; his poems, which consist of elegies, epistles, rondeaux, madrigals, and ballads, have left their impress on both the language and the literature of France (1495-1544).

The sagacious Buffon observed the danger from afar: 'ces deux hommes,' he wrote to a friend, 'ne sont pas faits pour demeurer ensemble dans la même chambre.'