Word: citoyen
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...more or less just Gallic stubbornness; the French believe that the moment they stop maintaining laïcité, which translates very roughly as the secularism of the public sphere, the Republic will cease to exist. If that means insisting on a certain idea of how the citoyen looks, then...
...Detroiter blinked at the big red lettering on the card: EN CAS D'ACCIDENT. After a blank for his name & address: Citoyen américain, je désire être transporté d'urgence à I'hôpital américain de Paris. The visitor filled in his name and hotel address, tucked the card into his wallet, and stepped briskly out into the warm, exciting Paris night to take his chances with wine, women and the world's wildest motorists. The Detroiter, and thousands like him, felt a bit more secure just...
Louis XVI lived to see France a republic and to hear himself called "Citoyen Capet". The less ancient but no less royal dynasty of Hohenzollern still lives in three generations, and the head of the house has turned from ruling a nation to chopping wood. Platz der Republik becomes the herald of a new order which sees Germany exchange her place in the sun for a seat in the League of Nations...
...Citoyen American, engage au service de la France. Veritable ame d'elite pour sa bravoure at son esprit de sacrifice. Est tombe le 23 Avril 1917 apres une heroique defense contre trois appareils ennemis." (A ete cite...
...sogers. He positively was not sure whether Signora Murfini of the Howard Athenaeum was really an Italian, or only a runaway daughter of old Murphy, the Irish tailor. He measured everything by its price, and I need not tell you that he was the most ridiculous young gentleman (citoyen) that I ever had the pleasure of knowing. It is possible, of course, that your friend is not this man's brother. It is possible, too, that his room was fitted up from designs furnished by himself. But it is highly probable that, having heard that Eastlake furniture was the fashion...
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