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| mil. réformé {m} [appelé] | [person who has been declared unfit for service] | |
| occup. relig. Sādhu {m} [aussi : Sadhou] | Sadhu [religious ascetic, mendicant or any holy person in Hinduism and Jainism who has renounced the worldly life] | |
| hist. mil. harki {m} | Harki [generic term for native Muslim Algerians who served as auxiliaries in the French Army during the Algerian War of Independence from 1954 to 1962] | |
| géogr. hist. Kennemerland {m} | Kennemerland [coastal region in the northwestern Netherlands, its name comes from the Kennemer people, who were Frisians that fought with the Counts of Holland and lost in the Middle Ages] | |
| sociol. relégué {m} [socialement] | [person who has declined in social status] | |
| sociol. reléguée {f} [socialement] | [person (female) who has declined in social status] | |
| envoi {m} [lettre envoyé] | letter [that has been posted] | |
| géogr. pol. duché {m} de Bourgogne | Duchy of Burgundy [emerged in the 9th century as one of the successors of the ancient Kingdom of the Burgundians] | |
| hist. vêt. poulaine {f} | Pointed toe of a shoe [a style fashionable in the 14 and 15C ] [also a shoe in such a style] | |
| ethn. géogr. Les Gullah {m.pl} | The Gullah {pl} [African American ethnic group who predominantly live in the south-eastern Lowcountry region of the U.S.] | |
| comm. mil. occup. vivandier {m} | sutler [civilian merchant who sells provisions to an army] | |
| 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] | |
| comm. mil. occup. vivandière {f} | sutler [female] [civilian merchant who sells provisions to an army] | |
| hist. pol. Banquet {m} du Vœu du faisan [1454] | Banquet of the Oath of the Pheasant [in 1454, the Duke of Burgundy gave this banquet to promote a Crusade (which never took place) against the Turks who had just taken Constantinople] | |
| horl. sci. conférence {f} internationale de Washington [1884] | International Meridian Conference [1884] [resulted in the recommendation of the Greenwich Meridian as the international standard for zero degrees longitude] | |
| mus. relig. antienne {f} | antiphon [a short chant in Christian ritual, sung as a refrain, where the texts are the Psalms] | |
| hist. mil. pol. le régiment {m} des Gardes françaises | The French Guards [elite infantry regiment created in 1563 as part of the Military Household of the King of France, specifically to protect the monarch (and, later, Emperor Napoleon)] | |
| relig. Saint-Siège {m} | Apostolic See [used today to denote the Pope as well as the Curia] | |
| hist. la Reconquista {f} [la Reconquête] | The Reconquista [period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula between the Battle of Covadonga (718 or 722) and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada in 1492] | |
| tel que {prep} | like [such as] | |
| ethn. géogr. Acadiens {m.pl} [ethnie vivant principalement en Amérique du Nord] | Acadians [ ethnic group descended from the French who settled early in now Canada] | |
| hist. pol. serment {m} du Jeu de paume [1789] | Tennis Court Oath [a pivotal event in the French Revolution. In 1789, the members of the French Third Estate voted "not to separate until the Constitution of the kingdom is established"] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. arc {m} de triomphe de l'Étoile | Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile [commissioned in Paris by Napoleon in 1806, it honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars] | |
| fin. hist. occup. gabelou {m} | gabeller [person who collected the gabelle - the salt tax] | |
| par excellence {adv} | in general [as such] | |
| de même que {conj} | just as [in the same way as] | |
| purement et simplement {adv} | in general [as such] | |
| 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. pol. île {f} de San Domino [île italienne faisant partie de l'archipel des îles Tremiti] | San Domino Island [in the 1930's, Mussolini had political prisoners as well as hundreds of homosexuals deported to San Domino] | |
| hist. pol. traité {f} de Troyes [1420] | Treaty of Troyes [in 1420, after victory at Agincourt, Henry V of England signed the Treaty with the wife of the demential Charles VI of France, confirming Henry as King of England AND France] | |
| 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] | |
| 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)] | |
| cuis. cochonnaille {f} [fam.] | [products made from pork such as salami, bacon, pâté and ham] | |
| à ce que je sache | as far as I know [from what I've been told] | |
| agr. mus. ranz {m} des vaches [suisse] | [simple melody traditionally played on the horn by the Swiss Alpine herdsmen as they drove their cattle to or from the pasture] | |
| comm. fin. délai {m} de réflexion | cooling-off period [in a commercial deal] | |
| comm. fin. délai {m} de rétractation | cooling-off period [in a commercial deal] | |
| hist. pol. traité {m} de Karlowitz [1699] | Treaty of Karlowitz [1699] [concluded the Great Turkish War of 1683–1697, establishing the Habsburg monarchy as the dominant power of the region] | |
| pol. oblast {m} | oblast [a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the former Soviet Union and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} de Poitiers [1356] | Battle of Poitiers [in 1356 was the 2nd major success, after Crécy, by England under Edward, the Black Prince, against France, under King John II, in the 100 Years' War] | |
| géogr. hist. comté {m} de Flandre | County of Flanders [historic territory in the Low Countries founded in 862, centred around the cities of Ghent, Bruges and Ypres] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} de Patay [1429] | Battle of Patay [in 1429, the culminating engagement of the Loire Campaign of the 100 Years' War, when the French cavalry inflicted a severe defeat on the English.] | |
| arts relig. L'Adoration {f} de l'Agneau mystique [aussi : Autel de Gand] | The Ghent Altarpiece [also: the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb] [a large 15C polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, begun in the mid-1420s and completed by 1432.] | |
| géogr. îles {f.pl} Lucaye | Lucayan Archipelago [also: Bahama Archipelago] [an island group in the western North Atlantic Ocean comprising the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands] | |
| hist. pol. guelfes {m.pl} | Guelphs [faction supporting the Pope in 12C and 13C in the Italian city-states of Central and Northern Italy] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Brouwershaven [1426] | Battle of Brouwershaven [in 1426, was part of the (1345-1490) wars over control of the Low Countries and resulted in victory for the Duke of Burgundy against mainly English forces] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Nancy [1477] | Battle of Nancy [in 1477, the final and decisive battle in the Burgundian Wars. The Duke of Burgundy was defeated and killed by Lorraine and Swiss forces (funded by France)] | |
| arch. traboules {f.pl} [passages piétons à travers des cours d'immeuble qui permettent de se rendre d'une rue à une autre dans certaines villes françaises. Les plus connues sont à Lyon] | passageway [between houses. Regional, in certain French cities and towns such as Lyon, Mâcon and Grenoble] | |