desillusionnement

Updated: June 2, 2026

Besides, the patois these people spoke was vastly different from ordinary French, as taught in schools and colleges, and what it might be like I had not in those days the faintest idea, not having read Rabelais. The worst desillusionnement I suffered I will recount.

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