Note 325 — NAPOLEONIC RULE.

Cappe, for Capet, says M. le Pelletier. The texte-type gives a variation here as la Chappe. This yields no help at all, except as showing by the variant that there is something wants altering. The line will not scan as it is. I think it should be altered to le Cap. If it stands for Capet it is masculine, and when it occurred before, in Quatrain 20 of Century IX., it was given as Esleu Cap.