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Nothing really fancy and we were joined by the french SOS dan booth "clerc",
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Benda tells us that he uses the term "clerc" in "the medieval sense," i.e., to mean "scribe," someone we would now call a member of the intelligentsia.
The Rule of Reason 2010
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Pas besoin d'être grand clerc pour comprendre que le terrain d'investigation de la chercheuse a été pour l'essentiel la Mayenne et la Manche.
Archive 2009-06-01 Christopher 2009
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Pas besoin d'être grand clerc pour comprendre que le terrain d'investigation de la chercheuse a été pour l'essentiel la Mayenne et la Manche.
Unbewitching Jeanne Favret-Saada Christopher 2009
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He is mentioned as having been Du Fay's clerc in the latter's executors' account, and is among the musicians named in Loyset Compère's motet Omnium bonorum plena composed probably for the dedication of Cambrai Cathedral in 1472.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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That is no more important than which clerc preformed the cerimony if you had a civil service.
Obama Giving Crucial Speech On Racial Issues This Morning 2009
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These terrorists using the name of Islam for achieving their uleterior motives faced big defeat in the election held in Bajaur Agency on the seat of Pakistan National Assembly vacated by a mullah (clerc) in protest against the air strike on a religous seminary. '
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In illustration of this proverbial expression, which Rabelais used in the form _Je ne suis point clerc pour prendre la lune avec les dents_, Loubens tells the amusing story of a servant who, when upbraided by the parents for not giving to a child what it wanted and for which it had been long crying, answered:
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Bede, the Anglo-Saxon, and Wace, the Norman, "a Frenchis clerc" as he calls him, are, in his eyes, authorities of the same sort and same value, equally worthy of filial respect and belief.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Il n'y a plus de source fiable, elles sont trop nombreuses, et il devient difficile de distinguer un clerc d'un gourou.
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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