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Ah vi l'arret maladie de ma psy est terminé ... ouais 6mois d'arret de therapie ca m'a fai bizarre d'y retourner.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009
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Developers said that the cost of transforming la maison d'arret into a luxury hotel would far exceed the purchase price.
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Developers said that the cost of transforming la maison d'arret into a luxury hotel would far exceed the purchase price.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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J'ai tres bien mangé pendant tout c'temps d'arret et quoi??!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Une minute d'arret c peu, et avec mon sac supra lourd, bref vallait mieux que j'me prepare.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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It is now the fashion to talk of a sojourn in a maison d'arret with triumph; and the more decent people, who from prudence or fear had been forced to seek refuge in the Jacobin clubs, are now solicitous to proclaim their real motives.
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Every person I meet seems to have contracted a sort of revolutionary aspect: many walk with their heads down, and with half-shut eyes measure the whole length of a street, as though they were still intent on avoiding greetings from the suspicious; some look grave and sorrow-worn; some apprehensive, as if in hourly expectation of a _mandat d'arret; _ and others absolutely ferocious, from a habit of affecting the barbarity of the times.
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-- The eloquence of a discontented orator is here silenced, not by a pension, but by a mandat d'arret; and the obstinate patriotism, which with you could not be softened with less than a participation of authority, is more cheaply secured by the Guillotine.
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I thought they would serve me if I was questioned; but my dangers thickened, until I was at last laid hold of, for not giving satisfactory answers, as _un homme sans aveu_, and was on the point of being conveyed to a _maison d'arret_, when I mentioned the name of Maurice Herbois as a person who could speak in my favor.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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The theatres swarm with spies, and to censure a revolutionary piece, however detestable even as a composition, is dangerous, and few have courage to be the critics of an author who is patronized by the superintendants of the guillotine, or who may retaliate a comment on his poetry by the significant prose of a mandat d'arret.
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