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Pierre et Jean All Quotes Flashcards

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1 - Jean scolds Roland for being rude to the women

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“Tu n’est pas galant pour notre invitée, papa”. M. Roland fut confus et s’excusa

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1 - Roland says he invites women because he likes their company but then forgets about them when fish are around

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“J’invite des dames parce que j’aime me trouver avec elles… [mais quand je pêche] je me pense plus qu’au poisson”

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1 - Pierre works hard to become a doctor

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Il s’était mis au travail avec tant d’ardeur qu’il venait d’être reçu docteur après d’assez courtes études

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1 - Pierre’s description as enthusiastic etc.

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Plein d’utopies et d’idées philosophiques

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1 - A dormant jealousy, and how it gives a brotherly and inoffensive animosity

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Une de ces jalousies dormantes… une fraternelle et inoffensive inimité

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1 - Displaying why Pierre is jealous of Jean

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“Regarde Jean et imite-le”

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1 - Mme Roland is like a soft hearted book-keeper

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Douée d’une âme tendre de caissière

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1 - Rosémilly makes the right moves - has weighed them up

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Comme si elle eût vu, subi, compris et pesé tous les événements possibles

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1 - Rosémilly is resigned and reasonable, likes life and respects death

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Raisonnable et résignée qui aime la vie et respecte la morte

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1 - Mme Roland is practical and prudent, and likes Rosémilly for the money

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Prudente et pratique… [wants one of her sons to marry Rosémilly] car la jeune femme était riche

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1 - Pierre judges Rosémilly like a magistrate, and as a result judges all women

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Il l’a regardait d’un regard froid de magistrat qui instruit le procès des femmes, de toutes les femmes

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1 - Mme Roland has gotten bigger since arriving at Le Havre

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Un embonpoint assez visible qui alourdissait sa taille autrefois très souple et très mince

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1 - Roland is rough with his wife, as shopkeepers are bound to be

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[Roland] Sans être méchant, la rudoyait comme rudoient sans colère et sans haine les despotes en boutique

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1 - Roland wants everything done to strict rule

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[Il veux que] les manoeuvres fussent exécutées régulièrement

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1 - Women find the sound of useless speech (Roland’s) as irritating as an insult

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Le bruit d’une voix inutile est irritant comme une grossièreté

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1 - Roland doesn’t speak to Joséphine apart from shouting

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[Roland] ne lui parlait sans hurler et sans sacrer

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1 - Mme Roland is gifted with remembering family lines

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Douée d’une excellente mémoire pour les parentés

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1 - Mme Roland is moved by art etc.

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Un vers, souvent banal, souvent mauvais, faisait vibrer la petite corde, comme elle disait

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1 - Mme Roland is deeply sad by Maréchal’s death and doesn’t realise about the inheritance

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Gouttes de chagrin venus de l’âme

Presque oubliée [about the inheritance]

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2 - After the inheritance, Pierre is hurt but he doesn’t know where (jealousy)

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Il avait mal quelque part sans savoir où

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2 - Pierre chooses to be alone after the inheritance

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Il avait choisi la solitude

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2 - Pierre realises he’s jealous of Jean

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J’ai été jaloux de jean… c’est vraiment assez bas, cela

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2 - Pierre realises that he’s jealous Pierre will marry Rosémilly (tells himself he doesn’t want to marry her afterwards)

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La première idée qui m’est venue est celle de son mariage avec Mme Rosémilly… (later calls her a ‘petit dinde raisonnable’)

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2 - Pierre tells Jean he wants to be on one of the boats

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“J’ai des désirs fous de partir, de m’en aller avec tous ces bateaux”

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2 - Pierre tells Jean that he wants to travel but can’t finish his sentence (change in circumstances marks a change in their relationship, loss of intimacy)

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“Ce serait rudement chic de pouvoir s’offrir une promenade par là-bas; mais voilà il faudrait de l’argent beaucoup…”

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2 - Marowsko’s mysterious past bewitches the imagination of Pierre

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[Marowsko’s past] avait séduit l’imagination aventureuse et vive de Pierre Roland

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2 - Marowsko’s warning to Pierre

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“Ca ne fera pas un bon effet”

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3 - Pierre has tried in the past to make money but at the first obstacle he fails

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L’espoir de la richesse vite acquise soutenait ses efforts et sa confiance jusqu’au premier obstacle

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3 - Pierre can easily make 100,000 francs

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Il pouvait gagner cent mille francs par an avec facilité

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3 - Pierre’s aims and motivations

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Il serait plus riche que son frère, plus riche et célèbre et content de lui-même

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3 - Pierre doesn’t want to marry

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Il ne se marierait pas, ne voulant point encombrer son existence d’une femme

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3 - the inheritance causes this change in Pierre

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À la suite de l’héritage de son frère

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3 - Pierre feels his family have forgotten about him

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[They could have] Ne pas perdre la tête au point d’oublier complètement l’autre fils

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3 - Mme Roland’s advice to Pierre about how he should still work

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“Un homme ne doit jamais rester à rein faire”

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3 - For Pierre, money either is a means of degradation for the mediocre but for the superior it is a powerful lever

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“Un levier puissant aux mains des forts”

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3 - Roland says the best thing to do is take life easy if rich

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“Le plus sage dans la vie c’est de se la couler douce”

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3 - Pierre says he respects nothing but learning and intellect

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“Je ne respecte au monde que le savoir et l’intelligence”

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3 - Mme Roland tries to stop Roland and son arguing

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[Mme Roland] s’efforçait toujours d’amortir les heurts incessants entre le père et le fils

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3 - the world of want becomes intolerable in Pierre’s mind

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Lui devenait odieuse, intolérable

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3 - Pierre longs for money

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“Cristi! Si j’avais de l’argent!”

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3 - Upon wanting money, the jealousy of the legacy stings him like a wasp

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À la façon d’une piqûre de guêpe

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3 - After he’s defeated by the need for money, Pierre suddenly wants to get married

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Le désir du mariage l’effleura

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3 - Pierre’s only ever had transient connections to women

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[He’s only had] des liaisons de quinzaine

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3 - Pierre can’t help thinking his brother somewhat mediocre

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Il ne pouvait s’abstenir de le juger un peu médiocre et de se croire supérieur

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3 - Pierre feels the need for being embraced and comforted

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Un besoin de s’attendrir, d’être embrassé et consolé

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3 - Pierre’s view on women that they should appear to us in dreams and be poetical creatures

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[Les femmes] doivent nous apparaître dans un rêve (ou dans une auréole de luxe qui poétise leur vulgarité)

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3 - Pierre suddenly feels a compulsion to explain about the legacy to the barmaid

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Pourquoi cette idée, qu’il rejetait de lui lorsqu’il se trouvait seul… lui vint-elle aux lèvres en cet instant

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3 - The barmaid tells Pierre that it’s no wonder Jean is so unlike him (implying that they’re not brothers)

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“Ça n’est pas étonnant qu’il te ressemble si peu”

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3 - The agitation that the suspicion cast at his mother causes him to stand still - it has a physical effect on him

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[L’émotion] fut si violente qu’il s’arrêta

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3 - Pierre fears the effect of the suspicion on his mother and fathers’ reputation

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[They would] rire de son père et mépriser sa mère

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3 - The assurance given by money to Jean was at once perceptible

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On sentait l’aplomb que donne l’argent

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3 - Jean thinks Rosémilly thinks he’s jealous

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“Tu es jealous, toi. C’est honteux, cela”

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4 - Pierre thinks that the barmaid is just trying to vilify his mother - classism

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Chaque fois qu’elles parlent, injurier, calomnier, diffamer toutes celles qu’elles devinent irréprochables?

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4 - Pierre’s still jealous (or is it the affair?)

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L’âme troublée par ce levain de jalousie qui fermentait en lui.

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4 - Roland’s mediocrity annoys Pierre constantly

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… et la médiocrité trop visible l’irritaient sans cesse

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4 - Pierre tries to cross examine his thoughts

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Interrogeant… tous les mystères de sa pensée

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4 - Mme Roland got a reduction in the price (practical and pragmatic)

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J’ai obtenu deux cents francs de diminution…

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4 - Pierre says he’ll earn his fortune by hard work and science (ironic considering he just wanted to borrow… idealism)

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C’est par le travail et la science que j’arriverai

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4 - Roland telling Pierre how M. and them bonded over his illness causes a though to hit him like a cannon ball

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Cette pensée… entra dans l’âme de Pierre comme une balle qui troue et déchire

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4 - The fog makes the night heavy, opaque and nauseous

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Le brouillard qui rendait pesante, opaque et nauséabonde la nuit

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4 - Pierre has tried to cheat his reason over the past few days

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[Il luttiat] Pour tromper sa raison

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4 - It was no longer envy but the knowledge of the affair that troubled Pierre

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Ce n’était plus cette envie… mais la terreur d’une chose épouvantable

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4 - Maréchal appreciates poets from a sympathetic and responsive feeling

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[He appreciated them] En bourgeois qui vibre

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4 - For Roland ‘poetry’ meant idiocy

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Le mot “poésie” signifiait sottise

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4 - Pierre remembering that Maréchal was fair like Jean is a clear and fearful recollection (fog…)

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Un souvenir précis, terrible

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4 - Pierre suddenly feels guilty for suspecting his mother and wants to be caressed

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Comme il l’eût embrassée, caressée

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4 - Roland’s mind never went further than the shop

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L’esprit n’avait jamais franchi l’horizon de sa boutique

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4 - Mme Roland had idealistic dreams of love

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Elle avait rêvé de clairs de lune, de voyages, de baisers donnés dans l’ombre des soirs

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4 - Pierre asks if you have to be blind to reject evidence (about your mother) - lawyer

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Fallait-il être aveugle et stupide au point de rejeter l’évidence

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4 - Pierre goes into a rage after accepting the affair

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Il eût voulu tuer quelqu’un!

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4 - Pierre wants to leave and never return (contrast to the end of the book)

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S’il avait pu partir… et ne jamais revenir

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4 - Having had drinks, he now doubts his conclusion about the affair happening

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[He knew so well] sa déraison vagabonde!

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5 - Jean states that he must bury the shame of the affair and hide it - he believes it at this stage

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[He needs to] enterrer en lui cette honte découverte

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5 - When Pierre sees Mme Roland (first time after confirming to himself her guilt) it is as if he’d never seen her before

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Il lui sembla tout à coup qu’il ne l’avait jamais vue

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5 - All of the female fashion and displays are signs of female depravity

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Une immense floraison de la perversité féminine

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5 - Women dress themselves for all men except those who they no longer need to conquer according to Pierre in Trouville

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Excepté pour l’époux qu’elles n’avaient plus besoin de conquérir

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5 - Men hunt women like game, coy and elusive according to Pierre in Trouville

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[Ces hommes] les chassaient comme un gibier souple et fuyant

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5 - Love market (translation)

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Halle d’amour

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5 - Pierre views respectable women as home-keepers and thinks those in Trouville aren’t good people

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Le peuple des honnêtes femmes enfermées dans la maison close

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5 - Roland only wants to see Pierre’s house when it is done (lazy)

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“J’irai voir quand ce sera fini”

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5 - Pierre, having been to Trouville, feels that he’s come to a family for which he knows nothing

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Il se croyait en effet entré tout à coup dans une famille inconnue

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5 - Pierre thinks he can no longer love her now that he could not revere her with respect

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Il ne pourrait plus la chérir, ne la pouvant vénérer avec ce respect absolu, tendre et pieux

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5 - Pierre’s relationship with his mother is described as his most sacred affection

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Son affection sacrée

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5 - Pierre thinks that if he was married to Mme Roland he would abuse her

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[Il l’aurait] jetée à terre, frappée, meurtrie écrasée!

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5 - Pierre thinks that Mme Roland owed to him to be without reproach - mothers need to be perfect for their children - view on mothers/family

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Elle se devait à lui irréprochable

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5 - Pierre thinks that love of man and wife is voluntary (contrast to mother and son)

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L’amour de l’homme et de la femme est un pacte voluntaire

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5 - Roland remembers Maréchal as having an even temper - similar description to Jean

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Quel caractère égal

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5 - Pierre thinks women have suspicious instincts

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Leur pensée soupçonneuse

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6 - Pierre tells Roland that he’s conscious of the burden of life

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Je sens terriblement le poids de la vie

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