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Le larron does not seem to be used in conversational French (my daughter taught me the word after she learned it in her French class while reading a classic text) ... so here are some useful synonyms: un escroc (swindler, con man, crook) un malfaiteur (burglar) un voleur (thief)
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Le larron does not seem to be used in conversational French (my daughter taught me the word after she learned it in her French class while reading a classic text) ... so here are some useful synonyms: un escroc (swindler, con man, crook) un malfaiteur (burglar) un voleur (thief)
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Si vous sauvez un voleur du gibet, il aidera ceux qui vous pendront.
Archive 2010-05-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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Supervielle was also the author of several works of fiction, Le voleur d'enfants 1926; The Man Who Stole Children being the most noted of them.
Jules Supervielle greenintegerblog 2008
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Elle s'est fait voler son portable elle a reussi a choppé le gars mais bien sur on devait s'y attendre les copain du voleur sont venu la tabasser ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Je ne sais plus trop ou j'en suis dans cette note alors comme je saute du coq a l'ane, je vais maintenant me sauver comme un voleur!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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As he is about to leave with his loot, our voleur is surprised by the tycoon's daughter, a young lady of Parisian high society named Giselle, exquisitely well read and highly refined but cursed with a morbid nature and naturally doomed to fall madly in love with the intruder.
The Shadow of the Wind Zafon, Carlos Ruiz 2001
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The Maigret Saga - episode 94 le voleur de maigret translation by nigel ryan
Maigret and the Pickpocket Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1967
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Le voleur de Maigret copyright ©1967 Presses de la Cité. translation by Nigel Ryan
Maigret and the Pickpocket Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1967
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First published as Maigret et le voleur paresseux, 1961, Presses de la Cité, Paris; first English publication 1963, translated by Daphne Woodward, Hamish Hamilton, London
Maigret and the Lazy Burglar Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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