I intend following their example with a view to impoverish the blood of my subjects, otherwise they might develop high fever.

Je compte donc les imiter en appauvrissant le sang de mon peuple, qui pourrait, un beau jour, avoir la fièvre chaude.

Zola, Emile / Contes à NinonZola, Emile / Stories for Ninon

Stories for Ninon

Zola, Emile

Contes à Ninon

Zola, Emile

Mathieu also thought of that law of imitation which impels even the least fortunate to impoverish themselves by striving to copy the happy ones of the world.

Puis, Mathieu songeait aussi à cette loi d’imitation qui fait que les moins heureux s’appauvrissent encore, en copiant les heureux de ce monde.

Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite

Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite

Zola, Emile

Fruitfulness

Zola, Emile

Camille, whose blood had become impoverished by illness, had remained a little boy in the eyes of his cousin.

Camille, dont la maladie avait appauvri le sang, ignorait les âpres désirs de l'adolescence.

Zola, Emile / Therese RaquinZola, Emile / Therese Raquin

Therese Raquin

Zola, Emile

Therese Raquin

Zola, Emile

What if Eugene were dragging them in his train into some break-neck pit, whence they would emerge yet more hungry and impoverished?

Si Eugène l’entraînait à sa suite dans quelque casse-cou d’où ils sortiraient plus affamés et plus pauvres?

Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon

La Fortune des Rougon

Zola, Emile

The Fortune of the Rougons

Zola, Emile

© 2006 BiblioBazaar

Madame Vigneron was a little woman with the correct bearing of a respectable bourgeoise, but her long, livid face denoted impoverished blood, terrible evidence of which was furnished by her son Gustave.

Mme Vigneron était petite, le visage long et blême, d’une pauvreté de sang, dans sa correction de bonne bourgeoise, qui reparaissait terrible chez son fils Gustave.

Zola, Emile / The Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Lourdes

Les Trois Villes - Lourdes

Zola, Emile

The Three Cities Trilogy - Lourdes

Zola, Emile

The works reeked of uniform mediocrity, they were characterised by a muddy dinginess of tone, despite their primness-the primness of impoverished, degenerate blood.

Une médiocrité uniforme suintait des œuvres, la salissure boueuse du ton qui les caractérisait, dans cette bonne tenue d’un art au sang pauvre et dégénéré.

Zola, Emile / His MasterpieceZola, Emile / L'Oeuvre

L'Oeuvre

Zola, Emile

His Masterpiece

Zola, Emile

They would certainly have far less, because conquest would have impoverished the vanquished.

Us en feraient sûre-l ment beaucoup moins, car la conquête aurait appauvri les vaincus.

Le Bon, Gustave / The Psychology of the Great WarLe Bon, Gustave / Enseignements psychologiques de la guerre européenne

Enseignements psychologiques de la guerre européenne

Le Bon, Gustave

© 1915, by Ernest Flammarion.

The Psychology of the Great War

Le Bon, Gustave

© 1999 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Britain had increased unemployment and impoverished its working class by the error of industrializing India, he continued.

La Grande-Bretagne avait accru le chômage et appauvri sa classe ouvrière en commettant l'erreur d'industrialiser l'Inde.

Kershaw, Ian / Hitler. 1936-1945 NemesisKershaw, Ian / Hitler. 1936-1945 Némésis

Hitler. 1936-1945 Némésis

Kershaw, Ian

© Ian Kershaw, 2000.

© Flammarion, 2000, pour la traduction franсaise. Edition revue, 2001.

Hitler. 1936-1945 Nemesis

Kershaw, Ian

© 2000 by Ian Kershaw

In reality his death was simply the final decomposition of impoverished, tainted, bourgeois blood, the sudden disappearance of a poor, mediocre being who, despite a fade of seeming health, had been ailing since childhood.

Ce n’était, en somme, que la décomposition dernière d’un sang bourgeois appauvri, gâté à sa source, la brusque disparition d’un pauvre être médiocre, souffrant depuis l’enfance, derrière sa façade de santé.

Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite

Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite

Zola, Emile

Fruitfulness

Zola, Emile