Note 40 — LES ROCHERS DE MAD. DE SÉVIGNÉ.
Reading edition
When Louis XIV. sent an army to dragoon the Britons into submission, on their resistance to his oppressive taxation, they fell on their knees, and cried aloud, “Mea culpa, mea culpa!” “C’étoit,” says Madame de Sévigné, “le seul mot de François qu’ils savoient.”