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Il est intéressant de noter que dans la lecture des siteweb français et allemands sur les cimetières militaires, je n'ai trouvé ni rancune ni fanfaronnade.
Vimy Ridge was a terrible waste of human potential Oleg Kuzin 2007
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Il est intéressant de noter que dans la lecture des siteweb français et allemands sur les cimetières militaires, je n'ai trouvé ni rancune ni fanfaronnade.
Archive 2007-04-01 Oleg Kuzin 2007
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I mustered the entire caravan outside the tembe, our flags and streamers were unfurled, the men had their loads resting on the walls, there was considerable shouting, and laughing, and negroidal fanfaronnade.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It was he who by doctoring the Ems dispatch in 1870 converted a chamade into a fanfaronnade and thus rendered the Franco-German war inevitable.
Foreign Words. 1908
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We can all make a shrewd guess at the meaning of fanfaronnade: how many average readers have the remotest idea of what a chamade 1 is? and is the function of newspapers to force upon us against our will the buying of French dictionaries?
Foreign Words. 1908
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In my bringing up, the idea of taking a lover after marriage seemed a more or less natural thing, and not altogether a deadly sin, provided the affair was conducted _sans fanfaronnade_, without scandal.
The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Elinor Glyn 1903
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An unfortunate conformity of innate temperament and acquired theory made such a _fanfaronnade_ as unnecessary as it would have been repugnant to him.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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That there was any more _fanfaronnade_ either of vice or of misanthropy about him, I do not believe.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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When the sculptor -- whose curiosity had been originally roused by certain phrases of Barbier's in his preliminary letters to his nephew, phrases embellished by Dubois 'habitual _fanfaronnade_ -- had first beheld the English girl, he had temporarily thrown up his work and was lounging about Paris in moody despair, to Madame
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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