Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Mis à jour: 24 juillet 2025
71 13 grosse comme le poing: 'as big as your fist. 71 14 haute de cinq doigts: cf. notes to 26 5 and 42 23. serviette: a kind of 'portfolio' widely used in France by public officials, professors, and others, for carrying papers and books. 71 15 notaire: the position of the French notaire is more dignified than that of our 'notary', he performs some of the functions of the American lawyer.
I have long been desirous that a complete French translation of the books I have written should be made, and should be published in an uniform series.
So far as possible, he borrowed every detail of character and environment from real life; almost all his characters represent real persons whom he studied with a view of using them in his books.
Mot du Jour
D'autres à la Recherche