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  • The light division was to make for the small breach and, upon entering the inclosure known as the fausse braye, a portion were to turn and enter the town by the Salamanca gate; while the others were to penetrate by the breach.

    Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War Walter Paget 1867

  • Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe.

    Public Speaking 2009

  • --- “Faire un canard”, in music = faire une fausse note, un son discordant, = faire “un couac”!

    canard - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • If you want to hog the spotlight (and all of the "life" that comes with it) then keep on perpetuating the idée fausse that public speaking is something that will kill you.

    Public Speaking 2009

  • My title for the picture would be: Non, je suis désolé, vous avez la fausse addresse.

    Carte de Fidelite - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • If you want to hog the spotlight (and all of the "life" that comes with it) then keep on perpetuating the idée fausse that public speaking is something that will kill you.

    Milestones 2009

  • Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe.

    Paris 2009

  • Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe.

    Milestones 2009

  • If you want to hog the spotlight (and all of the "life" that comes with it) then keep on perpetuating the idée fausse that public speaking is something that will kill you.

    Paris 2009

  • Spurious adj. (gen.) faux (fausse f); [document, writings] ; faux (fausse f) ; apocryphe ; [claim] fallacieux ; [interest, affection, desire] simulé, feint

    Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010

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