But one of his friends, a groom, frightened him by describing the exacting ways of his masters.

Mais un palefrenier de ses amis lui fit peur en lui racontant les exigences de ses maîtres.

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The Fortune of the Rougons

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"I suppose your groom is from England," she said.

— Le "groom" arrive-t-il aussi d’Angleterre? dit-elle.

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Le Lys dans la vallee

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The Lily of the Valley

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The Corps Legislatif had voted 400,000 francs,' but that was a mere nothing, for a groom at the Tuileries had informed him that the procession alone would cost nearly 200,000.

Le Corps législatif avait voté quatre cent mille francs; mais c'était une misère, car un palefrenier des Tuileries lui avait affirmé, la veille, que le cortège seul coûterait près de deux cent mille francs.

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Son Excellence Eugene Rougon

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She was on her way back from the Bois, and a groom held her horse at the door.

Elle rentrait du Bois; un domestique tenait son cheval, à la porte.

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Son Excellence Eugene Rougon

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His Excellency

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«Pray, sir," said John to a tardy groom, as he civilly walked his horse by the ladies, "who has passed in the barouche?»

– Mon ami, dit John à un des domestiques qui détournait son cheval de l’endroit où se trouvaient les dames, voulez-vous bien me dire quel est le seigneur qui vient de passer dans cette berline ?

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Précaution. Le choix d'un mari

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Precaution

Cooper, James Fenimore

"No one but myself can put him into his stall; my groom is coming by the coach from Chinon; he will rub him down."

Moi seul puis le faire sortir et le caser comme il faut. Mon "groom" vient par la voiture de Chinon, il le pansera.

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The Lily of the Valley

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Henrique had a boy's pride in his new possession; and, as he advanced and took the reins out of the hands of his little groom, he looked carefully over him, and his brow darkened.

Fier comme un jeune garçon de sa nouvelle monture, Henrique s’avança, prit les rênes des mains du petit groom, regarda attentivement le cheval, et son front se rembrunit aussitôt.

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However, his coachman, an old family servant, spared him the necessity of keeping a groom by insisting on taking entire charge of the carriage and the two black horses, which, like himself, had grown old in the service of the Boccaneras.

Encore son cocher, un vieux serviteur, lui épargnait-il un palefrenier, par son entêtement à soigner seul le carrosse et les deux chevaux noirs, vieillis comme lui dans la famille.

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Les Trois Villes - Rome

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The Three Cities - Rome

Zola, Emile

He who held the record for negligence and grime is certainly the best groomed of us all, especially since the further complication of his ivories, which were broken in the attack and had to be remade.

Lui qui détenait le record de la négligence et de la noirceur, il est certainement le plus soigné de nous tous, surtout depuis la complication de son râtelier cassé dans l’attaque et refait.

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Le feu

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Under fire

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