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- Ses avocats voulaient plaider la folie ; il refusa, pour que sa cause reste sérieuse.His lawyers wanted to plead insanity; he refused, so that his cause would remain serious.B2Louis Riel
- — Eh bien, tant mieux; car, dans ce cas, je demanderai à Sa Majesté la permission de plaider pour lui.»"Well, so much the better; for in this case I will ask His Majesty permission to plead for him."B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
- Au reste, les colons, quoique de race normande pour la plupart, n'avaient nullement l'esprit processif et aimaient mieux pour l'ordinaire céder quelque chose de leur bon droit que de perdre le temps à plaider.On the other hand, the colonists, although most of the Norman race, had no processive spirit and liked to give something of their right to the ordinary rather than to waste the time to plead.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
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