There was a pretender to the throne, and this man was--his life got off to an interesting start.

有一个觊觎王位的人,这个人的一生,有一个有趣的开始

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There was a trial of a very old man in 1998 called Maurice Papon, tried in Bordeaux.

在1998年他们审判了一个老头,叫莫里斯·帕蓬,在波尔多被审

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

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Louis XIV was invited by his treasurer a man called Fouquet, to go and eat there.

有一次路易十四受他的财务大臣,福凯特的邀请去他的城堡赴宴

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But,there was a big problem, that for all of his failings,human failings, and there were indeed many, and his intellectual limitations which were daunting, he was a man of faith and loyalty to his principles, for better or for worse,in this context.

但是他的弱点,人性的弱点,是个大问题,而且他的弱点确实很多,还有他的智力界限也令人沮丧,他是个固执于自己原则的人,不管原则是好是坏

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