Word: braquemond
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Nonetheless, Judge Pierre Braquemond deliberated for only ten minutes before acquitting Josette. Gonzales was as surprised as he was indignant, but the judge had a precedent from Normandy as his authority. In an earlier case, the Normandy judge had concluded: "The accused employed a locution as concise as it is emphatic, which was officially inaugurated by a Napoleonic general. Since then, it has been adopted as a useful means of externalizing, without superficial intellectual effort, an infinite variety of feelings. Often it escapes spontaneously from even the best educated lips with no harmful premeditation...
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