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 and Sentiments. 95 reprefents a chair of ftate, with its covering of drapery thrown over it. In fome inftances the cufhion appears placed upon the drapery. This feat was the faldejlol, a word which has been transformed in modern French to fauteuil (tranflated in Enghlh by elbow-chair). We read in the Chanfon de Roland of the faldejlol which was placed for princes, and of the covering of white " palie (a rich fluff) which was fpread over it. That of Charlemagne was of gold — Un faldejioed i unt fait tut cTor mer : Lajiet li reis qui duke France tient. — Chanfou de Roland, p. 5. The faldejlol of the Saracen king of Spain was covered with a "palie" of Alexandrian manufafture, — Un faldejloet out jwz, Vumhre dun pin, Eti'volupet fut diin palie Alexandr'in ,• Lafut li reis ki tute EJpaigne tint. — lb. p. 17. The infidel emir from Egypt, when he arrives in Spain, is feated in the midft of his hoft, on afaldeftol of ivory. Sur Verbe -verte getent un palie blatic, Un faldejioed i unt mis d'oUfan ; Defuzf'afet li paien Baligant. — lb. p. 102. The faldejlol was not always made of fuch rich materials. In the romance of Huon de Bordeaux, Charlemagne is reprefented as fitting in a faldejlol made of elm. Karles monta ens el palais plcnitr ; II eji afis u faudejiuef dormier. Huoa de Bordeaux, p. 286. The mouldings of the faldefiol in the cut No. 66 will be recognifed as exa6tly the fame which are found on old furniture of a much more recent period, and which, in fa6t, are thofe which offer themfelves moft readily to ordinary turners. The fame ornament is feen on the chair reprefented in our cut No. 67, taken from