It is true that her friends said that she was adopting conciliatory tactics merely in conformity with the advice of her son Eugène, the minister, who had charged her to personify at Plassans the gentleness and amiability of the Empire.
Il est vrai que les intimes prétendaient qu'elle obéissait à une tactique de conciliation, conseillée par son fils Eugène, le ministre, qui la chargeait de personnifier, à Plassans, les douceurs et les amabilités de l'empire.
Zola, Emile / The Conquest of PlassansZola, Emile / La Conquete des Plassans
La Conquete des Plassans
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The Conquest of Plassans
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Did not the Pope personify living religion, intelligence to understand, justice based upon truth?
Est-ce que le pape n’était pas la religion vivante, l’intelligence qui comprend, la justice qui fait la vérité ?
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
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The Three Cities - Rome
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Did not that adorable, unoccupied, indolent, ignorant creature, who only knew how to defend her love, personify the Italy of yesterday?
N’était-elle pas l’Italie d’hier, cette créature admirable, indolente, ignorante, inoccupée, ne sachant que défendre son amour ?
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
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The Three Cities - Rome
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The Baroness is really kindness personified, and I said all along that she would sacrifice herself in order to ensure the happiness of her daughter and Gerard.
La baronne, au fond, est la bonté même, et j’ai toujours dit qu’elle se sacrifierait pour assurer le bonheur de sa fille et de Gérard...
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
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The Three Cities - Paris
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She personified his youth.
Elle était toute sa jeunesse.
Zola, Emile / His ExcellencyZola, Emile / Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
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His Excellency
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And all at once the fete reappears, the chandeliers sparkle, the orchestra resounds amorously; suddenly each name is personified, and the ball, of which she was the queen, begins again with its ovations, its fondling and flattering words.
Et soudain la fête renaît pour elle, les lustres brillent, l’orchestre chante amoureusement ; soudain chaque nom se personnifie, et le bal, dont elle était la reine, recommence avec ses ovations, ses paroles caressantes et flatteuses.
Zola, Emile / Contes à NinonZola, Emile / Stories for Ninon
Stories for Ninon
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Contes à Ninon
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She, Our Lady of Lourdes, was there personified by a slender statuette, standing above the commemorative inscription, against the naked wall whose only decorations were a few bead wreaths hanging from nails.
Elle se trouvait là, Notre-Dame de Lourdes, une statuette mince, placée au-dessus de l’inscription funéraire contre la grande muraille nue, que décoraient seulement quelques couronnes de perles, pendues à des clous.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
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The Three Cities Trilogy - Lourdes
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He personifies Revolution in the Church, and is against God."
Il est la révolution dans l’Église, il est contre Dieu ! »
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
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The Three Cities - Rome
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For was not this banker the master? Was he not money personified--money, which is the only stable, everlasting force, far above all ephemeral tenure of power, such as attaches to those ministerial portfolios which pass so rapidly from hand to hand?
N’était-il pas le maître, l’argent, le seul pouvoir stable, éternel, au-dessus des pouvoirs éphémères, de ces portefeuilles de ministre qui passaient si rapidement de main en main ?
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
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The Three Cities - Paris
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And if his sufferings had thus always come from the warfare which his reason had waged against his heart, it was because he was man personified, ever struggling between his intelligence and his passions.
S’il n’avait jamais souffert que des combats qu’elle livrait à son cœur, il était tout l’homme, en lutte sans cesse avec son intelligence et avec sa passion.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
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The Three Cities - Paris
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Already on the Sunday when he had seen her on the balcony he had been seized with terror at the thought that she personified the revenge of the world and the flesh amidst all the mystical exaltation of immaculate Lourdes.
Déjà, le dimanche, quand il s’était aperçu qu’une femme vivait cachée dans la chambre voisine, il avait eu cette terreur pudique, en se disant qu’elle était la revanche de la chair, au milieu de l’exaltation mystique de Lourdes l’immaculée.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
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The Three Cities Trilogy - Lourdes
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She was virginity personified with all its redoubtable mystery.
Elle était la vierge dans tout son inconnu redoutable.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
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The Three Cities - Rome
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With hands crossed on her bosom, and breathing lightly, lay Helene, asleep--mother and widow alike personified by the quiet unrestraint of her attitude.
Hélène, les mains croisées, dans sa tranquille attitude de mère et de veuve, avait un léger souffle.
Zola, Emile / A Love EpisodeZola, Emile / Une page d'amour
Was not the whole of humanity, pitiable humanity, saved by love, personified by that poor childish man who suddenly became sublime because he found his daughter resuscitated?
L’humanité entière, l’humanité pitoyable, sauvée par l’amour, n’était-elle pas chez ce pauvre homme, tout d’un coup sublime, parce qu’il retrouvait sa fille ressuscitée ?
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
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The Three Cities Trilogy - Lourdes
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personify
verb
Basic forms
Past
personified
Imperative
personify
Present Participle (Participle I)
personifying
Past Participle (Participle II)
personified
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I personify
we personify
you personify
you personify
he/she/it personifies
they personify
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am personifying
we are personifying
you are personifying
you are personifying
he/she/it is personifying
they are personifying
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have personified
we have personified
you have personified
you have personified
he/she/it has personified
they have personified
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been personifying
we have been personifying
you have been personifying
you have been personifying
he/she/it has been personifying
they have been personifying
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I personified
we personified
you personified
you personified
he/she/it personified
they personified
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was personifying
we were personifying
you were personifying
you were personifying
he/she/it was personifying
they were personifying
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had personified
we had personified
you had personified
you had personified
he/she/it had personified
they had personified
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been personifying
we had been personifying
you had been personifying
you had been personifying
he/she/it had been personifying
they had been personifying
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will personify
we shall/will personify
you will personify
you will personify
he/she/it will personify
they will personify
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be personifying
we shall/will be personifying
you will be personifying
you will be personifying
he/she/it will be personifying
they will be personifying
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have personified
we shall/will have personified
you will have personified
you will have personified
he/she/it will have personified
they will have personified
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been personifying
we shall/will have been personifying
you will have been personifying
you will have been personifying
he/she/it will have been personifying
they will have been personifying
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would personify
we should/would personify
you would personify
you would personify
he/she/it would personify
they would personify
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be personifying
we should/would be personifying
you would be personifying
you would be personifying
he/she/it would be personifying
they would be personifying
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have personified
we should/would have personified
you would have personified
you would have personified
he/she/it would have personified
they would have personified
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice