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It gives us some insight into its ugliest side to know that, among other words, it produced the following: 'guillotine, 'incivisme, 'lanterner, 'noyade, 'sansculotte, 'terrorisme. Still later, the French conquests in North Africa, and the pitiless severities with which every attempt at resistance on the part of the free tribes of the interior was put down and punished, have left their mark on it as well; 'razzia' which is properly an Arabic word, having been added to it, to express the swift and sudden sweeping away of a tribe, with its herds, its crops, and all that belongs to it.
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