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 | occup. relig. souverain pontife {m} | Supreme Pontiff | |
| adm. mil. commandement {m} suprême des forces alliées en Europe | supreme headquarters of the Allied powers in Europe | |
| par souci de vérité {adv} | for the sake of the truth | |
| pour le bien du pays {adv} | for the good of the country | |
| météo. vêt. porter des vêtements de saison | to wear the right clothes for the time of year | |
| mâcher le travail à qn. [loc.] | to break the back of the work for sb. [idiom] | |
| hist. mil. connétable {m} | supreme commander of the French armies | |
| hist. mil. occup. vice-connétable {m} | deputy supreme commander of the French armies | |
| dr. naut. Tribunal {m} international du droit de la mer <TIDM> | International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea <ITLOS> | |
| télécom. au bout du fil {adv} [fam.] | at the other end of the line [on the phone] | |
| la vie du commun des mortels [loc.] | the life of the man in the street [idiom] | |
| pol. Ordre {m} de la Toison d'or | Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece [Catholic order of chivalry founded by the Duke of Burgundy in 1430. Today, 2 branches of the order exist, namely the Spanish and the Austrian Fleece ] | |
| pol. C'est l'avenir du pays qui se joue. | The future of the country hangs in the balance. | |
| relig. chute {f} originelle | the Fall of Man [also: the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall] | |
| dr. suivre la lettre, sinon l'esprit, de la loi [loc.] | to respect the letter, if not the spirit, of the law [idiom] | |
| Au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois. [loc.] | In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. [idiom] | |
| comm. fin. tarifer la marchandise | to set the price for the goods | |
| 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] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. siège {m} de Québec [1759] | Battle of the Plains of Abraham [1759] [also: Battle of Quebec] [deciding moment in the conflict between France and Britain over the fate of New France, influencing the later creation of Canada] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de l'Allia [387] | Battle of the Allia [387] [the Senones, a Gallic tribe. routed the Romans and sacked Rome] | |
| hist. mil. pol. Le traité {m} de Tournai [1385] | The Peace of Tournai [1385, between the Burgundian Duke Philip II and the rebellious city of Ghent] | |
| cuis. confondre le sel avec le sucre | to mistake the salt for the sugar | |
| arts hist. mil. monument {m} de la Bataille des Nations | Monument to the Battle of the Nations [commemorates the defeat of Napoleon's French army at Leipzig in 1813] | |
| hist. pol. traité {f} de Vereeniging [1902] | Treaty of Vereeniging [1902] [ended the Second Boer War between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, on the one side, and the United Kingdom on the other] | |
| l'essentiel {m} | the crux of the matter | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} des Deux-Roses | War of the Roses [series of civil wars in England between 1455 and 1487, when the House of Lancaster and the House of York fought for control of the throne of England] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} de la Bérézina [1812] [aussi : passage de la Bérézina ou bataille de Borissov] | Battle of (the) Berezina [1812] [also: Battle of Beresina] [final conflict in Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. The Russians inflicted heavy losses on the French but the outcome was not decisive] | |
| 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] | |
| relig. se signer | to make the sign of the cross | |
| 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.] | |
| cuis. suprême {m} de faisan | pheasant supreme [breast of pheasant] | |
| 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] | |
| spontanément {adv} | at the spur of the moment [coll.] [idiom] | |
| spontanément {adv} | on the spur of the moment [coll.] [idiom] | |
| en plein jour {adv} | in the middle of the day | |
| en pleine journée {adv} | in the middle of the day | |
| en pleine nature {adv} | in the heart of the countryside | |
| relig. la fraction {f} du pain | the breaking of the bread | |
| littérat. F Le Domaine des Dieux | The Mansions of the Gods | |
| en définitive {adv} [loc.] | at the end of the day [idiom] | |
| mal comprendre | to have the wrong end of the stick [idiom] | |
| anat. méd. douleurs {f.pl} lombaires | pain {sg} in the small of the back | |
| biol. ichtyo. zool. espèce {f} démersale | species living at the bottom of the sea | |
| à fleur d'eau {adv} | at the surface of the water | |
| en fin d'année {adv} | at the end of the year | |
| courir les cocktails | to do the rounds of the cocktail parties | |
| géogr. à proximité du littoral {adv} | in the vicinity of the coast | |
| au fil des années {adv} | during the course of the years | |
| au fil des années {adv} | in the course of the years | |
| au fil des années {adv} | over the course of the years | |
