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| arch. géogr. pol. château {m} de Christiansborg | Christiansborg Palace [in Copengagen, seat of the Danish Parliament, the Danish Prime Minister's Office, and the Supreme Court of Denmark] | |
| agr. zool. bête {f} à l'engrais | store [sheep, steer, cow, or pig acquired or kept for fattening] | |
| cuis. mignardises {f.pl} [pâtisserie] | petit four [small sweet biscuit or cake, served after dinner or with coffee] | |
| anat. méd. hexadactylie {f} | sexdactyly [hexadactyly] [the presence of six digits on one or both hands or feet] | |
| 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. mignardise {f} [souvent : mignardises] | petit four [small sweet biscuit or cake, served after dinner or with coffee] | |
| 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. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Iéna [1806] | Battle of Jena [1806] [in the two battles of Jena & Auerstedt, fought on the same day, Napoleon's army decisively defeated the Prussian Army under King Frederick William III] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Auerstaedt [1806] | Battle of Auerstedt [1806] [in the two battles of Jena & Auerstedt, fought on the same day, Napoleon's army decisively defeated the Prussian Army under King Frederick William III] | |
| géogr. hist. pol. Confédération {f} du Rhin [1806-1813] [aussi : États confédérés du Rhin] | Confederation of the Rhine [1806-1813] [formal: Confederated States of the Rhine] [German client states established after Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz] | |
| 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. pol. Louis {m} XIV [1638-1715] [aussi : Louis le Grand ou le Roi-Soleil] | Louis XIV [1638-1715] [also: Louis the Great or the Sun King] [King of France from 1643 until his death] | |
| hist. mil. pol. campagne {f} de France [1814] | campaign in north-east France [1814] [Napoleon's final campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition, ending in the capitulation of Paris] | |
| 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] | |
| arch. arts relig. retable {m} | reredos [structure placed on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church] | |
| arch. arts relig. retable {m} | altarpiece [structure placed on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {m} de Wagram [1809] | Battle of Wagram [1809] [military engagement which ended in costly but decisive victory for Napoleon's French army against the Austrian army, leading to the breakup of the 5th Coalition] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} de Rossbach [1757] | Battle of Rossbach [1757] [decisive battle in 7 Years' War in which the Frederick the Great's Prussian Army defeated a much larger combined French & Austrian Army] | |
| fin. cours {m} de compensation | daily settlement price [marked-up or marked down according to gains or losses] | |
| pierre {f} de touche [fig.] | touchstone [fig.] [standard or criterion by which something is judged or recognised/recognized] | |
| arch. arts relig. retable {m} | retable [structure placed on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church] | |
| 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.] | |
| hist. mil. pol. traité {m} de Paris [1763] | Treaty of Paris [1763] [between kingdoms of Great Britain, France, Spain, & Portugal, after Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain in the Seven Years' War] | |
| écon. débâcle {f} [ruine] | crash [sudden failure or value loss of a market or a business, e.g. a bank] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} de Buçaco [1810] | Battle of Buçaco [1810] [also: Battle of Bussaco] [major battle in the Portuguese mountains, which resulted in the defeat of French forces by Lord Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese Army] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Waterloo [1815] [aussi : bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean ou Victoire de la Belle-Alliance] | Battle of Waterloo [1815] [Napoleon's French army was decisively defeated by the combined Anglo-Allied and Prussian armies, marking the final end of the Napoleonic Wars] | |
| géogr. dépendances {f.pl} fédérales de Venezuela [constituées de 72 îles au large des terres vénézuéliennes dans la mer des Caraïbes et du golfe du Venezuela] | Federal Dependencies of Venezuela [most of Venezuela's offshore islands in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Venezuela] | |
| géogr. géol. Avatchinski {m} [volcan de Russie] [aussi : Avatcha, Gorelaïa sopka, Monastyr, Saria ou Souatchou] | Avachinsky [also: Avacha or Avacha Volcano or Avachinskaya Sopka] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} de la Moskova [1812] [aussi : bataille de la Moskowa ou bataille de Borodino] | Battle of Borodino [1812] [2nd major battle during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The Grande Armée won the battle against the Imperial Russian Army, but failed to gain a decisive victory] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Aspern-Essling [1809] [aussi : bataille d'Essling ou bataille d'Aspern] | Battle of Aspern-Essling [1809] [Napoleon occupying Vienna, tried to cross the Danube. The Austrian army drove the French army back with heavy losses. This was Napoleon's 1st personal defeat] | |
| alim. cuis. mistelle {f} | mistelle [made by adding alcohol to non-fermented or partially fermented grape juice or apple juice] | |
| hist. pol. Pierre {m} I [1672-1725] [aussi : Pierre le Grand or Piotr Alekseïevitch Romanov] [Tsar puis 1er empereur de Russie] | Peter the Great [1672-1725] [also: Peter I or Pyotr Alekséyevich Romanov] | |
| hist. Charles {m} III le Simple [879-929] | Charles the Simple [879-929] [also: Charles the Straightforward] [ King of West Francia from 898 until 922 and the king of Lotharingia from 911 until 923. A member of the Carolingian dynasty] | |
| visiter (qn./qc.) | to visit (sb./sth.) [when a person, a visit to a sick person or prisoner by a doctor or priest, not a social visit] | |
| hist. pol. Marie-Louise {f} d'Autriche [1791-1847] [fille aînée de François I d'Autriche, elle est donnée en mariage en 1810 à l'empereur des Français Napoléon I pour sceller le traité de Schönbrunn] | Marie Louise of Austria [1791-1847] [Napoleon's 2nd wife, Empress of the French 1810-1814, Duchess of Parma 1814-1847] | |
| cuis. gibassié {f} | [pastry from Provençal] | |
| larme {f} | tear [from crying] | |
| cuis. gibassier {f} | [pastry from Provençal] | |
| méd. convalescence {f} | recuperation [from illness] | |
| géogr. hist. phocéen {m} | Phocean [from Marseilles] | |
| géogr. hist. phocéen {adj} | Phocean [from Marseilles] | |
| cuis. mouclade {f} | [meal made from mussels] | |
| ethn. Flamand {m} | Fleming [person from Flanders] | |
| géogr. hist. phocéenne {f} | Phocean [from Marseilles] [female] | |
| ethn. Belge {m} | Belgian [person from Belgium] | |
| limaille {f} | filings {pl} [residue from filing] | |
| relig. chasteté {f} | celibacy [abstaining from sex] | |
| éduc. absentéiste {adj} | truant [absent from school] | |
| bouche bée {adj} | agape [from astonishment] | |
| charbonner | to blacken [from heat, fire] | |