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Example sentences for: état

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Then, too, the outré behavior you describe was taking place at your house, allowing you to feel (rightly, Prudie thinks) that l'état, c'est moo . ("I'm bossy around here."
The same newspaper reported the "disappointment and grave concern" expressed by South African President Nelson Mandela over the detention without charges on Christmas Day of the Zambian founder-president and independence hero, Kenneth Kaunda, by the current Zambian president, Frederick Chiluba, who claimed that Kaunda had been implicated in an attempted coup d'état last October.
For a while, they lived in a ménage á trois with the valet de chambre, but the valet was arrested as an agent provocateur, following a coup d'état manqué, which turned out to be a débacle.