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Word: controleur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plaintiff, Controleur Général de Police Michel Gonzales, was confident that no judge would uphold the defendant. In polite society, after all, one never even says merde outright but le mot de Cambronne, a reference to the same word used by a Napoleonic general when the British suggested that he surrender at Waterloo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Woman's Lip | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

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