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  • KIGALI - Twenty-eight Rwandans died in a "cachot" - a communal detention centre - in the southwest of the country, U.N. officials said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • KIGALI - Twenty-eight Rwandans died in a "cachot" - a communal detention centre - in the southwest of the country, U.N. officials said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • The gendarmes who apprehend him, the commissioner who questions him, those who take him to prison, the warders who lead him to his cell — which is actually called a cachot, a dungeon or hiding-place, those again who take him by the arms to put him into a prison-van — every being that comes near him from the moment of his arrest is either speechless, or takes note of all he says, to be repeated to the police or to the judge.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • The gendarmes who apprehend him, the commissioner who questions him, those who take him to prison, the warders who lead him to his cell -- which is actually called a cachot, a dungeon or hiding-place, those again who take him by the arms to put him into a prison-van -- every being that comes near him from the moment of his arrest is either speechless, or takes note of all he says, to be repeated to the police or to the judge.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Then I went to Lourdes, where I was able to join thousands of faithful on the Jubilee Way, which includes the places of St. Bernadette's life: the parish church with the baptismal font where she was baptized; the "cachot" where she lived in great poverty as a girl; the Massabielle Grotto, where the Virgin appeared to her 18 times.

    B16, On the Message of Lourdes papabear 2008

  • (At this point in my story Jean-Marc interrupts to argue about the use of the word "cachot" (or "dungeon") only to agree that the vigneron's cave, with its river of wine, would color the cheeks and soul of the weariest prisoner.)

    cachot - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • (At this point in my story Jean-Marc interrupts to argue about the use of the word "cachot" (or "dungeon") only to agree that the vigneron's cave, with its river of wine, would color the cheeks and soul of the weariest prisoner.)

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • Then I went to Lourdes, where I was able to join thousands of faithful on the Jubilee Way, which includes the places of St. Bernadette's life: the parish church with the baptismal font where she was baptized; the "cachot" where she lived in great poverty as a girl; the Massabielle Grotto, where the Virgin appeared to her 18 times.

    Archive 2008-09-14 papabear 2008

  • (At this point in my story Jean-Marc interrupts to argue about the use of the word "cachot" (or "dungeon") only to agree that the vigneron's cave, with its river of wine, would color the cheeks and soul of the weariest prisoner.)

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • (At this point in my story Jean-Marc interrupts to argue about the use of the word "cachot" (or "dungeon") only to agree that the vigneron's cave, with its river of wine, would color the cheeks and soul of the weariest prisoner.)

    cachot - French Word-A-Day 2006

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