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fléau

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nounmasculine
  1. a flail, either tool or weapon
  2. a scourge; a curse, a calamity or a plague
  3. the beam of a mechanical balance

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  • Les suites ordinaires de ce fléau ne se firent pas attendre.The ordinary consequences of this scourge were not delayed.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
  • Le temps était propice pour faire tous ces arrangemens; le fléau qui décimait alors les Indigènes les rendait plus conciliants et plus raisonnables.The time was right to make all these arrangements; the scourge that then decimated the Indigenous people made them more conciliatory and reasonable.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I

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