patrie

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• Sans doute dès que la tempête a cessé il a reconnu son erreur, vu quel marchait vers le Nord désert, et de suite il a repris le bon chemin, en garçon d'expérience qui a toujours eu le bois pour patrie.No doubt as soon as the storm stopped he acknowledged his error, given what was marching to the desert north, and immediately he resumed the right path, as an experienced boy who had always had wood as his homeland.B1Maria Chapdelaine
• — L’Espagne est sa patrie, répondit d’Artagnan, et il est tout simple qu’elle aime les Espagnols, qui sont enfants de la même terre qu’elle."Spain is his homeland," replied d'Artagnan, "and it is simple that she loves the Spaniards, who are children of the same land.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
• A la patrie sans doute; à sa mère, à sa fiancée peut-être, qui, dans ce moment égrenaient probablement là-bas, à son intention, leur chapelet au coin du feu de leur chaumière.To his mother, perhaps to his fiancée, who, at that time, probably had their rosary at the corner of the fire of their cottage.B2Le Chevalier de Mornac
• Heureux l'historien qui n'a pas la même tâche à remplir pour sa patrie!Happy is the historian who does not have the same task for his homeland!C1Histoire du Canada, tome I