Histoire de France Flashcards by Alex Moseley

le galet

Pebble

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tailler

L’art de tailler les pierres

to cut or to carve;

stone knapping

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la tanière

Den or retreat

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Le pair

Peer, colleague

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Le front

Forehead

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fuyant

Un front fuyant

receding

Also shifty

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le menton

Chin

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une musette

sack

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livret militaire

military record book

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apposer

“des affiches ont été apposées partout en France”

to affix, to post

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s’apprêter

Des millions d’hommes s’apprêtent à revêtir l’uniforme…

to ready oneself

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revêtir

Des millions d’hommes s’apprêtent à revêtir l’uniforme…

to adorn

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garance

madder dye, red

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la cible

target

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la mitrailleuse

machine gun

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enfouir

Ils sont enfouis sous dix millions de cadavres qui vont s’entasser au fil des combat…

to bury

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la tuerie

massacre

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la gueule

mouth, also slang for face

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debout

standing

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se faire tuer

to get killed

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enjeu

concern, issue

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le rang

row, rank

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L’engrenage

“L’engrenage des alliances, des ultimatums, des mobilisations, entraîne les nations dans sa mécanique sanglante.”

gears, the system

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faucher

to reap

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subir "Et les armées des autres belligérants subissent des saignées du même ordre."

to suffer

s'entasser "Mes affaires s'entassent dans le débarras : il faut absolument que je fasse du rangement."

to pile up, accumulate

embraser "l'incidie qui embrase l'Europe"

to set alight

une ânerie "Une guerre entre Européens, c'est une guerre civile, la plus monumentale ânerie que le monde ait jamais faite!" (Général Lyautey, 1914)

nonsense, stupid talk

un clin "un clin d'œil"

a wink

rôder "Mais on sais que la guerre rôde, cherchant des proies." (Max Gallo)

to prowl

marteler le martel

to pound, to hammer hammer

**la voûte** "La voûte de cette crypte est superbe." "Paris est la clé de voûte de la Triple-Entente..." (Max Gallo) **voûté** "Avec l'âge, le vieil homme était complètement voûté."

arch; vaulted; adj: also round shouldered

ébranler ébranlé "Le regime est ébranlé par ses défaites de 1905..." (Max Gallo)

to disturb, to shaken shaken

la tenaille

pincers

broyer "...l'Allemagne...craignait qu'en cas de conflit la tenaille France-Russie ne broie l'Allemagne entre deux fronts."

to grind, to crush

sangloter

to cry, to weep

cuirassé

battleship

éperon

spurs

la cicatrice

scar

côtoyer

rub shoulders with

le chantre

an apologist, eulogist, defender, champion also a bard

vibrer

to vibrate, resonate, thrill, tremble

parcourir

to wander, travel, pass

la ruelle

backstreet

mouiller 1) La pluie, ça mouille ! 2) Ses ennemis ont voulu le mouiller dans cette histoire de trafic. 3) "Un navire de guerre allemand - le Panther - veut mouiller devant Agadir." (Gallo, 1914) se mouiller 4) Je me suis mouillée pour la défendre dans cette affaire.

to wet, dampen to implicate to moor to stick ones neck out

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