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| RadioTV heure {f} de grande écoute [télévision] | prime time [peak viewing time] | |
| hist. béguine {f} | beguine [member of one of various ascetic and philanthropic communities of women not under vows founded chiefly in the Netherlands in the 13C] | |
| cuis. tomme {f} de Savoie | tomme de Savoie [probably the most famous of the tomme cheeses] | |
| repenser à qn./qc. | to think of sb./sth. once more | |
| Il était une fois ... | Once upon a time there was ... | |
| prov. Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide. | Once bitten, twice shy. | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Andrinople [378] [aussi : bataille d'Adrianople ; aujourd'hui Edirne en Turquie européenne] | Battle of Adrianople [378] [also: Battle of Hadrianopolis] [overwhelming victory of the Goths over the Eastern Roman Empire] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} de Morgarten [1315] | Battle of Morgarten [in 1315, the Confederates of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden defeated a Habsburg army, laying foundation for future independence of the Swiss Confederacy] | |
| raccourcir qc. [trajet, temps imparti] | to reduce sth. [e.g. allotted time] | |
| dans le délai fixé {adv} | in time [within a given time limit] | |
| auditoire {m} [public] | audience [at concert, lecture] | |
| conférencier {m} | speaker [at a conference etc.] | |
| éduc. élève {f} | student [girl at secondary school] | |
| mus. orchestre {m} | band [esp. at a dance] | |
| trafic rond-point {m} | circus [at road intersection] | |
| armes mil. naut. mouillage {m} de mines | minelaying [at sea] | |
| hist. droit {m} de cuissage | droit du seigneur [supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women, in particular, on the wedding nights of the women] | |
| fin. hist. pol. Laurent {m} de Médicis [1449-1492] [aussi : Laurent le Magnifique] | Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici [1449-1492] [also: Lorenzo the Magnificent] [Italian statesman, banker, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Ayacucho [1824] | Battle of Ayacucho [1824] [secured the independence of Peru and ensured independence for the rest of South America] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Manzikert [1071] | Battle of Manzikert [1071] [also: Battle of Malazgirt] [decisive defeat of the Byzantine Empire by the Seljuk Empire] | |
| géogr. hist. pol. grand-duché {m} de Lituanie [1251-1795] | Grand Duchy of Lithuania [1251-1795] [European State and, in the 15C, the largest in Europe] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille d'Edington {noun} [878] | Battle of Edington [878] [also: Battle of Ethandun] [Saxon army under Alfred the Great defeated the Great Heathen Army] | |
| hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Paris [1815] | Treaty of Paris [1815] [also: Second Treaty of Paris] [ after the defeat and the second abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte] | |
| dr. sociol. Code {m} noir | Code noir [decree passed by King Louis XIV of France in 1685 defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire] | |
| redonner du courage à qn. | to raise sb.'s hopes once again | |
| une bonne fois pour toutes {adv} [loc.] | once and for all [idiom] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Five Forks [1865] [surnommée le « Waterloo de la Confédération »] | Battle of Five Forks [1865] [sometimes called "the Waterloo of the Confederacy"] [Union victory] | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} de Quatre-Vingts Ans [1568-1648] [aussi : révolte des Pays-Bas] | Eighty Years' War [1568-1648] [also: Dutch Revolt] [armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between groups of rebels and the Spanish government] | |
| maintenant {adv} [l'époque actuelle] | today [at present] | |
| s'évaser | to flare [widen at one end] | |
| tarauder qn. [fig.] | to torment sb. [gnaw at] | |
| éduc. camarade {m} d'études | classmate [at college, university] | |
| à court terme {adv} | quickly [at short notice] | |
| sur ces entrefaites {adv} | meanwhile [at that moment] | |
| occup. théâtre maître {m} de manège | ringmaster [at a circus] | |
| armes mil. naut. mouillage {m} de mines | mining [at sea] [minelaying] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {m} de Bailén [1808] [aussi : bataille de Baylen] | Battle of Bailén [1808] [the first open-field defeat of a Napoleonic army - by the Spanish Army of Andalusia] | |
| hist. mil. pol. révolte {f} des Boxers [1899-1901] [aussi : révolte des Boxeurs ou guerre des Boxers] | Boxer Rebellion [1899-1901] [also: Boxer Uprising, the Boxer Insurrection, or the Yihetuan Movement,] | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerres {f.pl} xhosas [1779-1879] [aussi : guerres cafres] | Xhosa Wars [1779-1879] [also: Cape Frontier Wars or Kaffir Wars] [series of 9 wars between the Xhosa Kingdom and the British Empire] | |
| géogr. hist. pol. royaume {m} de Navarre | Kingdom of Navarre [Basque kingdom that occupied lands on either side of the western Pyrenees, alongside the Atlantic Ocean between present-day Spain and France between 824 and 1620] | |
| hist. mil. pol. siège {m} de Compiègne [1430] | siege of Compiègne [1430] [Joan of Arc's final military action with her capture by the Burgundians. A minor siege but important event in the 100 Years' War] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} des Quatre Bras [1815] | Battle of Quatre Bras [1815] [although the Anglo-Allied army defeated the left wing of Napoleon's French army, it was not decisive] | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} d'indépendance espagnole [1808-1814] | Spanish War of Independence [1808-1814] [also: Peninsular War] [military conflict fought by Spain, UK and Portugal against France for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars] | |
| redonner qc. à qn. [donner à nouveau] | to give sb. sth. once again | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Guinegatte [1479] | Battle of Guinegate [in 1479, first battle in what became over 500 years of conflict between France and the Habsburgs, Battle won by the Habsburgs] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} des champs Catalauniques [451] [aussi: bataille de Campus Mauriacus] | Battle of the Catalaunian Plains [451] [Western Roman Empire defeated the Hunnic Empire] [also: Battle of the Campus Mauriacus] | |
| géogr. Saint-Barthélemy {f} [une île française des petites Antilles et un pays et territoire d'outre-mer] | Saint Barthélemy [also: the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy] [an overseas collectivity of France in the Caribbean] | |
| depuis des temps immémoriaux {adv} | from times out of mind [from / since time immemorial] | |
| hist. mil. naut. bataille {f} du Solent [1545] [aussi : bataille du Portsmouth] | Battle of the Solent [1545] [inconclusive engagement (during the Italian Wars) between the fleets of Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England] | |
| d'emblée {adv} | in one [coll.] [at first attempt] | |