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La première fois que je dénonçai Danton au comité, Robespierre se leva comme un furieux, en disant qu'il voyait mes intentions, que je voulais perdre les meilleurs patriotes.
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Il est furieux parce qu'Ottawa avait promis de ne plus inclure les redevances du pétrole dans le calcul de la péréquation, promesse sur laquelle Stephen Harper est revenu dans le dernier budget fédéral.
The revenge of the Newfies? Ed Hollett 2007
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All I could understand from her story was that she had been closely connected with “la maison de M. Andrieux — hautes nouveautés, articles de Paris, etc.,” and perhaps was one of the family of la Maison de M. Andrieux; but she had somehow been torn for ever from M. Andrieux, par ce monstre furieux et inconcévable, and that was the point of the tragedy ....
A Raw Youth 2003
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Stendhal seems to have been the first Frenchman who delcared himself a romantic: Je suis un romantique furieux c'est-à-dire, je suis pour Shakespeare contre
ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968
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Le voyageur, furieux, fait un vacarme effroyable, et l'hôtelier impassible lui porte sur sa carte: "6 réaux de tapage."
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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L'artiste, furieux, s'élance sur lui: "Frappez, vous êtes sauvé!" dit l'ouvrier si heureusement inspiré.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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Un torrent furieux, dans sa course rapide, _insultait_ un ruisseau
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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He was specially detested by the Extreme Left, whose chief, Gambetta, he styled a _fou furieux_.
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He scorned prudence in moderation at all times, and his behaviour, when the wave of Revolution at last carried him to power, gave point to the taunt of Thiers -- "c'est un fou furieux."
The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) John Holland Rose 1898
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They were chosen not on account of their nobility and royalism, but because they were certain to vote against the _fou furieux_.
The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) John Holland Rose 1898
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