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Faire éclater notre ras-le-bol, une débâcle de casseroles, treve de paroles, faites du bruit ...
Archive 2007-01-01 uncorrectedproofs 2007
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And the mysticism of Baudelaire is summarised in his famous manifesto: Il faut vous enivrer sans treve.
Intellectuals 2006
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W. then thought the ministry would last over the holidays, the treve des confiseurs, and was quite willing I should have a Christmas party as a last entertainment.
My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 Waddington, Mary King 1914
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SEMICHON, La paix et la treve de Dieu (Paris 1869); HUBERTI, Gottes und Landfrieden (Ansbach, 1892).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Thus is Danton's battle-pledge taken up: there is, as he said there would be, 'war without truce or treaty, ni treve ni composition.'
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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L. Semichon (L. paix et la treve de Dieu, 2 vols.,
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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"De cette treve qui a ete faite, je ne suis pas contente, et je ne sais si je la tiendrai.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 Mark Twain 1872
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