17-History Flashcards

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in the past, formely

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autrefois (2)

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a custom

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une coutume

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to start with, at first

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au début (2)

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eventually, in the end

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à la fin, finalement (2)

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today’s world, yesterday’s men

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le monde d’aujourd’hui, les hommes du passé

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in those days, at that time

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à l’époque (2)

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remote

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lointain, éloigné

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the third millennium

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le troisième millénaire

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to occur, to happen, to take place

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se produire, se passer (3)

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history repeats itself

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l’histoire se répète

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the postwar period

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l’après-guerre

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to come to an end

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prendre fin

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to put an end to

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mettre fin à

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previous

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préalable

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former, ancient

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ancien (2)

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of yore

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d’antan

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an empress

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une impératrice

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a kingdom

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un royaume

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an absolute monarch

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un monarque absolu

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to be crowned

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être couronné

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to reign (over)

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régner (sur)

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to date back to

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remonter à

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The Middle Ages

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le Moyen Âge

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the Renascence

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la Renaissance

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l’Âge d’Or

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the Golden Age

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the Storming of the Bastille

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la prise de la Bastille

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the aftermath

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les suites, les conséquences

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an uprising

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un soulèvement

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the Rights of Man, human rigtss

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les Droits de l’Homme

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Enlightnment

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les Lumières

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the Revolutionary War

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la guerre d’indépendance (US)

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to free (from)

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libérer (de)

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to herd

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parquer

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to be beheaded

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être décapité

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to elapse

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s’écouler

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Cromwell’s Republic

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la République de Cromwell

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once

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jadis, un jour (passé)

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the forefathers

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les ncêtres

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an anniversary, a jubilee

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un anniversaire (de qch)

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a coronation

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un couronnement

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rise and fall

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grandeur et décadence

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the heydday

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l’apogée

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to bequeath

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transmettre, léguer

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to be up in arms against

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se révolter, s’insurger contre

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William the Conqueror

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Guillaume le Conquérant

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the Gunpowder Plot

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la Conjuration des Poudres

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the Great Plague

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la Grande Epidémie de Peste

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the Great Fire of London

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l’Incendie de Londres

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the Battle of Britain

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la Bataille d’Angleterre

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the Hong Kong Handover

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la Rétrocession de Hong Kong