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Geneva Flashcards

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réforme

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reformation

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Gavi, l’Alliance mondiale pour les vaccins et l’immunisation

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Gavi, l’Alliance mondiale pour les vaccins et l’immunisation (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization)

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cluster, groupe, foyer, ensemble

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cluster

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Palais des Nations

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Nations Palace

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salle des conseils

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council chamber

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Commission du désarmement de l’Organisation des Nations Unies

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United Nations Disarmament Commission

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terrain en terre battue

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clay court

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émaillage

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enamelling

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guillochis est un « ornement composé de lignes, de traits ondés qui s’entrelacent ou se croisent avec symétrie »

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guilloche work

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Fabrique (savoir-faire touchant à l’horlogerie, à l’orfèvrerie et à la bijouterie)

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Fabrique (community of craftsmen – watchmakers, goldsmiths, jewellers and other highly skilled artisans who worked with precious metal)

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être en reste

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is no expection

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frondeur

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political rebel

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Feuillu, fête populaire

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Feuillu, folk festival

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Tour ATP/WTA

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ATP/WTA tournament

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en tournée

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on the stump, on tour

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feutré

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hushed

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intimiste

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private, intimate, small

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musique electro

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electronic music, EDM

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ballet

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ballet

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somptueux, luxueux, magnifique, élouissant, fabuleux, féérique, riche, triomphal, superbe

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luxurious, splendid, lavish, ornate, fancy, stylish, elegant, palatial

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récital

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recitals concert

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concert symphonique (de l’orchestre symphonique)

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symphony orchestra concerts

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lieu incontournable

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must-see attraction

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spectacle humoristique

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comedy, comedy show, comedy/comic series (TV, radio), stand-up show

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comédie musicale

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musical

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divertissement, amusement, distraction, détente, récréation

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entertaiment, leisure, performance, show

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salle de spectacle

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theatre, concert hall, multi-purpose concert hall

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piste cyclable

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cycle track, cycle path, cycleway, cycle lane

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mobilité douce

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eco-friendly transport, on foot or by byke

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régate

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regatta

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course de relais

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relay race

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Grand Théâtre de Genève

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Geneva Opera House

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convivial

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friendly

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mélomane

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music lover

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mode de transport

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means of transport

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transfrontalier

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cross-border

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borne automatique

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self-service ticket machine

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silloner

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criss-cross

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cosmopolitisme/cosmopolitanisme

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cosmopolitanism, global/universal character

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diète (assemblée legislative)

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diet (legislative assembly)

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parga

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ionnienne

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corfou

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autodidacte

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self-educated

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maître horloger

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master watchmaker

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horlogerie

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(industrie) watchmaking; (boutique) watchmaker’s (shop); (produits) clocks and watches (pl);

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précurseur

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pioneer, frontrunner, forerunner, precursor

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Lumières (siècle)

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Enlightenment (Age)

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sacrements

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sacraments

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presbytérien

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presbyterian

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Huguenots

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émeutes iconoclastes

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iconoclastic riots

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écritures

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scriptures

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indélébile

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clergé, prêtrise

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priesthood

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évêque

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laïque

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lay, secular

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Institutio Christianae religionis (livre Calvin latin)

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Institutes of the Christian Religion (book by Calvin)

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théologien

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theologian

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homme d’État ecclésiastique

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ecclesiastical statesman

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vin chaud

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mulled wine

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Ainsi périrent les ennemis de la République!

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Thus perished the enemies of the Republic!

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pâte d’amande

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brigand, bandit, voleur, fripouille, vaurien, malfaiteur, truand, forban, canaille, gredin, scélérat, crapule, gangster, fripon, chenapan

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brigand, robber, outlaw, ruffian, desperado, plunderer, marauder, raider, pillager, highwayman, criminal, thug, gangster, pirate, freebooter

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chaudron, marmite

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agitation

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déjouer, empêcher que quelque chose ne se produise

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to foil, prevent something from happening

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porticullis (porte en métal lourd)

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porticullis (heavy metal gate)

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plaque commemorative

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commemorative plaque, memorial tablet, ornemental tablet

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ducaton (ancienne monnaie d’argent; ducat d’argent valant la moitié du ducat)

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ducaton (old silver coin; silver ducat worth half the ducat)

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cavalerie (ensemble de troupes à cheval)

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cavalry (set of troops on horseback)

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courtine, mur de fortification, mur de rempart

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courtine, fortification wall, fortress wall, bastion wall, palisade wall,

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pétardier

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donner un assaut, attaquer

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to assault, attack, make an assault on, launch an attack on, assail, pounce on, set upon, launch oneself at, strike at, fall on, swoop on, rush, storm, besiege.

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garnison (troupe de soldats casernée dans un endroit, une ville)

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assaillant, attaquant

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assailant, assaulter, robber, bushwhacker, predator, invader, besieger, rapist.

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herse (grille mobile armée à sa partie inférieure de fortes pointes, à l’entrée d’un château fort)

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harrow (mobile grid armed at its lower parts, at the entrance of a fortified castle)

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gardien de nuit (Isaac Mercier)

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night guard (Isaac Mercier)

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Philippe III d’Espagne

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Philip III of Spain

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genevois

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genevan or genevese

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grimper, escalader, gravir, se hisser, faire une ascension

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to scale (to climb up or over something high and steep)

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grand seigneur (elegant, urbane gentlement)

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grand seigneur (elegant, urbane gentlement)

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seigneur d’Albigny

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Seigneur / Lord of Albigny

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convoiter

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citadins

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Mère Royaume (Catherine Cheynel)

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Mother Kingdom (Catherine Scheinel)

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Duc de Savoie

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Duke of Savoy (Charles Emmanuel I)

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savoyard

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Duché de Savoie

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Duchy of Savoy (Catholic)

90
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Course de l’escalade

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Escalade Run

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