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  • Forbes BrowneDundee• In the TV series Spiral G2, 4 April, I was intrigued to see the juge d'instruction say the French justice system was "better" than in England or the US.

    Letters: Harp heaven 2011

  • En effet, il est inutile d'ouvrir nos rangs à plusieurs milliers de nouvelles personnes si la plupart d'entre elles demeurent inactives en raison de goulots d'étranglement dans notre système d'instruction.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • Bon voila c'est tout, j'ai juste pris trois quatre foto tout a l'heure quand j'ai testé le jeu mais apres ma sieste je lirais consciencieusement le manuel d'instruction et je m'y mettrais serieusement demain!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • He was a Gascon of gigantic stature and bodily daring; and the wildest tales were told of his outbursts of athletic humour; how he turned the juge d'instruction upside down and stood him on his head, "to clear his mind"; how he ran down the Rue de Rivoli with a policeman under each arm.

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • My father was juge d'instruction of the Canton of Vaud.

    The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post

  • The daughter of an obscure juge d'instruction of the Canton of Vaud, singing in a Swiss meadow, had been taken up by a wealthy American, traveling in Switzerland on an April morning-old, enervated with the sun of the Riviera, and displeased with life.

    The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post

  • Ces exemples prouveront, sans doute, que la capacité des nègres peut s'étendre a tout; ils n'ont besoin que d'instruction et de liberté.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

  • This is done by working upon the _Juez de primera instancia_, who corresponds in some degree to the _Juge d'instruction_ in France.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

  • Her early life lay so far below in a world remote and detached; a little house in a village of the Canton of Vaud with the genteel poverty that attended the slender salary of a juge d'instruction, and the weight of duties that accumulated on her shoulders.

    The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post

  • And this rich old woman, her rheumatic fingers loaded with jewels, had transformed the daughter of the juge d'instruction of the Canton of Vaud into a singing wonder that made every human creature see again the dreams of his youth before him leading into the Elysian Fields.

    The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post

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