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  2. Category:17th-century French translators - Wikipedia

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    5 languages. العربية ... 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; Pages in category "17th-century French translators" The following 51 pages are in this category ...

  3. Brelan - Wikipedia

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    In Old French, a brelan, berlan or berlenc (from High German: bretling = "board, table") was a table on which people played dice. [2] The game of Brelan, even breland, for the name and the rules varied over time, appeared as early as an edict of Lille, France, of 1458, however Depaulis says that "contrary to popular belief, [Brelan] only had the meaning of a card game in the 17th century". [3]

  4. Middle French - Wikipedia

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    Middle French (French: moyen français) is a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the mid-14th to the early 17th centuries. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is a period of transition during which:

  5. Maréchaussée - Wikipedia

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    View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

  6. Compagnie du Sénégal - Wikipedia

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    Senegal, from the 1707 map of "Barbaria, Nigritia, and Guinea" by Guillaume de l'Isle.. The Compagnie du Sénégal (French for the "Senegal Company" or, more literally, the "Company of the Senegal") was a 17th-century French chartered company that administered the territories of Saint-Louis and Gorée island as part of French Senegal.

  7. The Age of Louis XIV - Wikipedia

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    The Age of Louis XIV (Le Siècle de Louis XIV, also translated The Century of Louis XIV) is a historical work by the French historian, philosopher, and writer Voltaire, first published in 1751. [1] Through it, the French 17th century became identified with Louis XIV of France , who reigned from 1643 to 1715.

  8. Précieuses - Wikipedia

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    The Précieuses (French: la préciosité, French pronunciation: [la pʁesjɔzite], i.e. "preciousness") was a 17th-century French literary style and movement. The main features of this style are the refined language of aristocratic salons, periphrases, hyperbole, and puns on the theme of gallant love.

  9. Artamène - Wikipedia

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    Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus (English: Artamène, or Cyrus the Great) is a novel sequence, originally published in ten volumes in the 17th century. The title pages credit the work to French writer Georges de Scudéry , but it is usually attributed to his sister and fellow writer Madeleine .