Félix Weill

It is important to realize that this is a reader of French history, in French, rather than a reader of Old or Medieval French.

The book is heavily annotated via footnotes which cover difficult passages as well as French history. I reproduce the footnotes on page 50 below:

5 qu'est ceci: what does this mean?
12 ce lui semblait == il lui semblait
17 que de mourir: Notice the inversion: mourir is the logical subject of serait
21 Recipe: Latin, imper. of recipere, to take. In most countries, physicians' prescriptions are written in Latin.
23 Tallemant de Reaux (1619-1668): a witty, somewhat cynical writer of anecdotes and sketches under the title of Historiettes. We find in them interesting facts about social life in the seventeenth century.… (mehr)