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67 Cards in this Set
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une enluminure
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an illumination (manuscript)
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un manuscrit
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manuscript
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un chevalier
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knight
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la prouesse
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feat, prowess, exploit
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les menestrels
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minstrals
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les troubadors
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troubadours
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analphabetes
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illiterates
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s'acharner
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to perservere
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l'acharnement
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determination
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un massacre
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a massacre
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reconnaissant
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grateful
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s'agenouiller
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to kneel
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anthropomorphique
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anthropomorphic
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meriter
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deserve
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la dette
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debt
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le gibier
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game
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la cruaute
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cruelty
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sceller un pacte
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seal a pact
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se soumettre
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submit
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la nostalgie
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nostalgia
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un quatrain
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quatrain
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un tercet
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tercet
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un doublet
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a cuplet
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une cesure
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a cesura
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un enjambement
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enjambment
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les racines
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roots
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les gaulois
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ancesters of France
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l'antiquite
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antiquity
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les Citations
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quote
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l'outrecuidance
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presumptuousness
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l'hypocrisie
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hypocrisy
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un temoin
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witness
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"le bon sauvage"
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Theme of Montaigne & Rousseau
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l'Etat de Nature
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The state of nature
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belliqueux
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bellicose
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la polygamie
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polygamy
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la vengance
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vengeance
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l'Inquisition
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Catholics 'saving' Protestants
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vaincu
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vanquished
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un la^che
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coward
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se rendre/abdiquer
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to abdicate
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les inegalites sociales
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social inequality
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l'oppression
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oppression
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Alexandrin
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Iambic Hexameter
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Mettre en scene
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stage
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personnage
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chracter
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temps, lieu, action
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regles de trois unite de la theatre
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faire chanter
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blackmail
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duper/tromper
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trick
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rendre compte
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give a report
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rendre
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to return
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pretensieux
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pretentious
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susciptible
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touchy (sensitive)
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colerique
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easily angered
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oprimer
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oppress
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par procuration
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vicariously
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une imposture
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an imposture
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s'entr'aider
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help each other
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la galanterie
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chivalry
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le petit bleu
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document that showed Esterhazy as prob.
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Y mettre de (sien)
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to work hard
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A la votre
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to your health
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faire des siennes
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faires des betises/mauvais actions
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learned
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a su
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tried to
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a voulu
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managed to
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a pu
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bien des, la moitite des, la plupart des
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exceptions to 'de' rule?
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