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...souvenir qui pleure...
...homme qui suit son desir...
Again it was suggested that if we take the words ce qui pend au talon, "that which hangs down to the heels," and then erase all but the verb and the noun, we shall retain the sound of pantalons, from which the present spelling might well arise. The word, at any rate, has been used in English since the time of Hudibras, who says...
...marry a fortune qui tombe sur la tete...
...vient! qui vient! le Caporal Violet...