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 | dr. film littérat. policier {adj} [film, roman] | detective [film, book] |  |
 | film littérat. passionnant {adj} {pres-p} [roman, film] | gripping |  |
 | relig. pratiquant {adj} | observant [practising, obedient] [ Jew, Roman Catholic etc. ] |  |
 | mièvre {adj} [roman, tableau, musique] | soppy |  |
 | illisible {adj} [roman] | unreadable |  |
Verbs |
 | ébaucher qc. [tableau, roman, sculpture, fig. : projet, sourire] | to draft sth. [letter, speech, bill, contract] |  |
 | littérat. romancer qn./qc. [présenter sous forme de roman] | to fictionalise sb./sth. [Br.] |  |
 | littérat. romancer qn./qc. [présenter sous forme de roman] | to fictionalize sb./sth. |  |
Nouns |
 | dénouement {m} [affaire, roman, etc.] | 2 outcome [matter, novel etc.] |  |
 | hist. mil. mus. buccin {m} [trompette] | buccina [also: bucina, buccin or bucine] [brass instrument used in Roman Army] |  |
 | hist. calendes {m} | calends [first day of the month in the ancient Roman calendar] |  |
 | hist. mil. centurie {f} | century [unit of the Roman army] |  |
 | littérat. nœud {m} [de pièce, de roman] | core |  |
 | hist. pol. gibelins {m.pl} | Ghibellines [faction supporting the Holy Roman Emperor in 12C and 13C in the Italian city-states of Central and Northern Italy] |  |
 | myth. Parques {f.pl} | Parcae [also: the Fates] [female personifications of destiny who directed the lives (and deaths) of humans and gods in Roman mythology] |  |
 | littérat. lisibilité {f} [de roman, document] | readability |  |
 | dr. hist. Miroir {m} des Saxons | Sachsenspiegel [the most important law book of the Holy Roman Empire, originating around 1220 as a record of existing customary law] |  |
 | hist. saturnales {f.pl} | Saturnalia [ancient Roman festival] |  |
 | film registre {m} [de roman, film] | style |  |
2 Words: Verbs |
 | littérat. préparer qc. [nouvelle édition, roman, thèse] | to work on sth. |  |
2 Words: Nouns |
 | littérat. canevas {m} [fig.] [d'un roman, exposé] | basic framework [fig.] |  |
 | hist. pol. François {m} II [1768-1835] [empereur des Romains 1792-1806, François I d'Autriche 1804-1835 ] | Francis II [1768-1835] [the last Holy Roman Emperor 1792-1806 and, as Francis I, the first Emperor of Austria 1804-1835] |  |
 | hist. pol. diète {f} impériale | Imperial Diet [Holy Roman Empire] |  |
 | hist. pol. Couronne {f} de fer | Iron Crown [reliquary and one of the oldest royal insignia of Christendom. A relic from the Kingdom of the Lombards, used for the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperors as Kings of Italy] |  |
 | hist. Maximilien {m} d'Autriche [1459-1519] [Maximilien Ier] | Maximilian I [1459-1519] [Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death. He married Mary of Burgundy, expanding his influence. However, he lost the original family lands in Switzerland] |  |
 | hist. pol. Pragmatique Sanction {f} [1549] | Pragmatic Sanction [edict issued by Charles, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1549 reorganising the Seventeen Provinces of the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg into one indivisible territory] |  |
 | littérat. pol. ébauche {f} [roman, réforme] | preliminary draft |  |
 | arts hist. pol. colonne {f} Trajane | Trajan's Column [Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy] |  |
 | hist. relig. grand schisme {m} d'Occident | Western Schism [split in Roman Catholic Church between 1378 and 1417] |  |
3 Words: Verbs |
 | littérat. être plein de fantaisie [roman] | to be highly imaginative |  |
3 Words: Nouns |
 | hist. mil. Bataille {f} de Bouvines [1214] | Battle of Bouvines [the concluding battle of the Anglo-French War of 1213–1214.A French army under King Philip Augustus defeated an Allied army under Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV] |  |
 | hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Vienne [1683] | Battle of Vienna [1683] [the Holy Roman Empire defeated the Ottoman Empire] |  |
 | hist. pol. congrès {m} d'Arras [1435] | Congress of Arras [in 1435, 1st international peace conference between France, England & Burgundy and observers from Aragon, Bohemia, Brittany, Castile, Denmark, Holy Roman Empire, and many more.] |  |
 | géogr. hist. comté {m} de Hainaut [ou Hainau] | County of Hainaut [or Hainault] [territorial lordship in the medieval Holy Roman Empire, straddling today's border of Belgium and France; main towns Mons (BG) and Valenciennes (FR)] |  |
 | géogr. hist. comté {m} de Hollande | County of Holland [originally a State of the Holy Roman Empire and from 1433 part of the Burgundian Netherlands] |  |
 | géogr. hist. comté {m} de Zélande | County of Zeeland [county of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries, covering an area in the Scheldt and Meuse delta (roughly today's Dutch province of Zeeland)] |  |
 | géogr. hist. duché {m} de Brabant | Duchy of Brabant [a State of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183. Most of the duchy's former territories, are in today's Belgium except for the Dutch province of North Brabant] |  |
 | géogr. hist. pol. duché {m} de Carinthie | Duchy of Carinthia [a State of the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806] |  |
 | géogr. hist. pol. duché {m} de Carniole [1363-1918] | Duchy of Carniola [1363-1918] [an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire, later a hereditary land of the Habsburg Monarchy] |  |
 | géogr. hist. pol. duché {m} de Clèves [1417-1815] | Duchy of Cleves [1417-1815] [a State of the Holy Roman Empire, situated in the northern Rhineland, today part in Germany and part in the Netherlands] |  |
 | géogr. hist. duché {m} de Limbourg | Duchy of Limburg [an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire, mostly today's Liège Province of Belgium] |  |
 | géogr. hist. pol. électorat {m} de Cologne | Electorate of Cologne [ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire] |  |
 | géogr. hist. pol. électorat {m} de Mayence | Electorate of Mainz [ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire] |  |
 | géogr. hist. pol. électorat {m} de Trèves | Electorate of Trier [ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire] |  |
 | hist. mil. pol. chute {f} de Constantinople [1453] [Aussi : prise de Constantinople] | Fall of Constantinople [in 1453, the Ottoman Empire captured the capital of the Byzantine Empire, marking its end, and effectively the end of the Roman Empire] |  |
 | hist. pol. maison {f} de Croÿ | House of Croÿ [a family of European mediatised nobility, elevated to the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1594] |  |
 | hist. pol. paix {f} de Westphalie [1648] [aussi : traités de Westphalie] | Peace of Westphalia [1648] [2 treaties which ended the 30 Years' War and the 80 Years' War and brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire] |  |
 | arch. géogr. hist. tour {f} d'Hercule | Tower of Hercules [oldest extant lighthouse known, with an ancient Roman origin, on a peninsula near A Coruña, Galicia, Spain] |  |
 | hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Lunéville [1801] | Treaty of Lunéville [signed in 1801 by the French Republic and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, following the Battle of Marengo] |  |
 | hist. pol. traité {m} de Madrid [1526] | Treaty of Madrid [signed in 1526 by King Francis I of France and Charles, Holy Roman Emperor. Francis renounced all his claims in Italy, Flanders, and Artois, and surrendered Burgundy to Charles] |  |
4 Words: Others |
 | Ce qu'il a de meilleur, c'est ... [roman etc.] | Its best feature is ... [novel etc.] |  |
4 Words: Nouns |
 | hist. pol. Bulle {f} d'or (de 1356) [aussi : bulle d'or de Nuremberg ou bulle d'or de Metz] | Golden Bull of 1356 [a decree which fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, important aspects of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire] |  |
 | hist. pol. relig. principauté {f} archiépiscopale de Salzbourg [1328-1803] [aussi : archevêché de Salzbourg] | Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg [1328-1803] [an ecclesiastical principality and state of the Holy Roman Empire] |  |
5+ Words: Verbs |
 | démarrer lentement [roman etc.] | to get off to a slow start [novel etc.] [idiom] |  |
5+ Words: Nouns |
 | hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} de la Première Coalition [1792-1797] | War of the First Coalition [1792-1797] [conflicts between France and several European powers (Britain, Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, Spain, Naples, Sardinia, etc)] |  |
 | hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} de la Deuxième Coalition [1798-1802] | War of the Second Coalition [1798-1802] [conflicts between France, supported by Spain, and several European powers (Britain, Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Ottoman Empire, Russia & Tuscany)] |  |
 | hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} de la Troisième Coalition [1803-1806] | War of the Third Coalition [1803-1806] [conflicts between France, supported by Spain and Bavaria, and several European powers (Britain, Holy Roman Empire, Russia, Naples, Tuscany & Sweden)] |  |
Fiction (Literature and Film) |
 | film littérat. F L'Amant [roman : Marguerite Duras; film : Jean-Jacques Annaud] | The Lover |  |
 | film littérat. F Le Nom de la Rose [roman : Umberto Eco, film : Jean-Jacques Annaud] | The Name of the Rose |  |
 | film F Le Pianiste [Roman Polanski] | The Pianist |  |
 | film littérat. F Un taxi mauve [roman : Michel Déon, film (1977) : réalisateur: Yves Boisset] | The Purple Taxi |  |
 | film littérat. F La guerre des boutons [roman : Louis Pergaud (1912) ; film : Yves Robert (1962)] | War of the Buttons |  |
 | film littérat. F Le Liseur {noun} [roman de Bernhard Schlink ] | The Reader [film: Stephen Daldry] |  |