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  • Machiavelli — Innocent Gentillet's Discours sur les moyens de bien gouverner ... contre Nicolas Machiavel

    MACHIAVELLISM FELIX GILBERT 1968

  • RÉGNER, gouverner un État comme chef suprême; dominer.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • "La 'Garnison' a occupée le pays sans le 'gouverner,' ou en ne le gouvernant que de son propre interet de classe: son hegemonie a été toute sa politique."

    Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell

  • MORS, _m. _, levier de la bride qui passe dans la bouche d'un cheval et sert à le gouverner.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • "C'est, répondit-il, qu'une femme est plus difficile à gouverner qu'un royaume."

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • He asked many questions about the Cortes, and when I told him that many of them made good speeches on abstract questions, but that they failed when any practical debate on finance or war took place, he said, “Oui, faute de l'habitude de gouverner.”

    Lady John Russell Ed 1910

  • Nous croyons que nulne se doit ingerer de son autorite propre pour gouverner l'Eglise, mais que cela se doit faire par election, en tant qu'l est possible et que Dieu le permet.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Nous croyons que nulne se doit ingerer de son autorite propre pour gouverner l'Eglise, mais que cela se doit faire par election, en tant qu'l est possible et que Dieu le permet.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Afterwards Napoleon asked many questions about the Cortes, and when Lord John told him that many of the members made good speeches on abstract questions, but they failed when any practical debate on finance or war took place, Napoleon drily remarked: 'Oui, faute de l'habitude de gouverner.'

    Lord John Russell 1887

  • The French word was _gouverner_, and its oldest form was the Latin _gubernare_, a word which the Romans borrowed from the Greek, and meant originally "to steer the ship."

    Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins John Fiske 1871

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