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chained_bear commented on the word fainéantise
"But to our author, idleness—fainéantise, whether genteel or not—was the height of sin."
—Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre, And Other Episodes in French Cultural History (New York: Vintage Books, 1984), 128
September 22, 2008