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  • In the famous play by Molière Le médecin malgré lui the protagonist Sganarelle is himself a maker of fagots (silent T) meaning in old French a maker of wood.

    Squaw no more David 2006

  • In same play Médecin malgré lui Sganarelle make use of another old French word not used anymore.

    Squaw no more David 2006

  • Molière's "Le médecin malgré lui" and "Le médecin volant" at the Comédie

    Dario Fo - Biography 1998

  • Française, Fo stages Molière's "Le médecin malgré lui" and "Le médecin volant".

    Dario Fo - Biography 1998

  • (Friedrich Nietzsche, that great theologian malgr lui, knew better: the so-called death of God is a much more cataclysmic event than we have yet come to understand.)

    'Without God': An Exchange Castner, Edward 2008

  • The man had literally been unable to falsify his thoughts when questioned and had been compelled to be true malgr� lui, even when truth must have been so disagreeable to him.

    Barchester Towers 2004

  • The archdeacon questioned and cross-questioned him about this, but elicited nothing, and at last remained firm in his own conviction that he was destined, malgr� lui, to be the brother-inlaw of Mr. Slope.

    Barchester Towers 2004

  • De plus, leur isolation thermique est incomparable par rapport la tle ondule traditionnelle qui rchauffe plutt qu'elle ne rafrachit les maisons dans des pays o la fracheur des maisons constitue l'aspiration de chacun malgr son cot lev.

    Chapter 12 1997

  • Et malgr les efforts dploys par l'Etat le prix du mdicament reste toujours lev compte tenu de la situation embryonnaire de la production nationale.

    Chapter 7 1991

  • Cette homologation, d'aprs notre modeste exprience, est beaucoup plus aise au niveau des phytothrapeutes qu’au niveau des herboristes soucieux surtout de la vente de leurs produits malgr l’homognit apparente des bottes.

    Chapter 7 1991

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