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Les beaux messieurs de Bois-Doré Vol. 1 (of 2)

Note 23 — Introductory material (continued 6)

George Burnham Ives translation

The play upon words consisted in the fact that prétendus, the word used by Monsieur Poulain, also, means suitors. (Cf. the colloquial English phrase: his intended.)

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