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Terms for subject Historical (50 entries)

Camp David	Camp David
cour des Miracles	area in Paris where vagrants had the right of sanctuary
despotisme éclairé	enlightened despotism
droit de cuissage	droit de seigneur
l'an Deux de la Révolution	Year Two of the (French) Revolution
l'an Un de la Révolution	Year One of the (French) Revolution
l'Asie Mineure	Asia Minor
l'Autrichienne	Marie-Antoinette
l'Empereur	Napoleon
l'exode	the flight southward and westward of French civilians before the occupying German army in 1940
l'Épuration	period after the Second World War during which collaborators were tried and punished
la Compagnie des Indes orientales	the East India Company
la Conspiration des poudres	the Gunpowder Plot
la drôle de guerre	the phoney war
la Fronde	the Fronde rebellion
la loi du talion	lex talionis
la Peste noire	the Black Death
la rafle du Vel' d'Hiv	the rounding up of Jews in the Paris Vélodrome d'Hiver in 1942
la Restauration	the Restoration
la ruée vers l'or	the gold rush