Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
ce qu'ils n'ont peu manger, cesse tout à faict
English translation:
what they hadn't taken after the first time around was soon completely exhausted
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suezen
Feb 5, 2005 20:55
19 yrs ago
French term
France
ce qu'ils n'ont peu manger, cesse tout à faict
French to English
Art/Literary
History
Champagne
Coquault raconte que le 24 septembre 1650, "l'armée du maréchal de Praslin est en la plaine des Mesneux et Sacy, qui vendangent et font dégast en nos vignes, et que le 11 octobre de la même année l'armée repasse à Sillery, qui va piller et fourrager le reste qu'ils trouvent à Villers Allerant, de sorte que ung peu de vendanges, ce qu'ils n'ont peu manger, cesse tout à faict."
Sorry, another one from Champagne...
Sorry, another one from Champagne...
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13 mins
French term (edited):
ce qu'ils n'ont peu manger, cesse tout � faict
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what they had taken the first time around was soon completely laid waste
this seems to be the sense anyway
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Note added at 14 mins (2005-02-05 21:10:25 GMT)
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sorry, pressed too quicly again! What they hadN\'T taken ....
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Note added at 35 mins (2005-02-05 21:31:32 GMT)
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what they hadn\'t taken after the first time around was soon completely exhausted/eaten
what was left after the first time around was soon ripped from the branches, (leaving nothing behind)
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Note added at 14 mins (2005-02-05 21:10:25 GMT)
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sorry, pressed too quicly again! What they hadN\'T taken ....
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Note added at 35 mins (2005-02-05 21:31:32 GMT)
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what they hadn\'t taken after the first time around was soon completely exhausted/eaten
what was left after the first time around was soon ripped from the branches, (leaving nothing behind)
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4 mins
French term (edited):
ce qu'ils n'ont peu manger, cesse tout � faict
quelque chose comme
le peu qu'ils trouvaient à manger se réduisit à une absence totale de nourriture
je pense
je vous laisse la traduction vers l'anglais...
je pense
je vous laisse la traduction vers l'anglais...
+3
5 mins
Hervé du Verle
Native in French
23 yrs in French medical edition
Native in: French (Variant: Canadian) 
Works in: English to French, French to English, English, and 1 more.
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French term (edited):
ce qu'ils n'ont peu manger, cesse tout � faict
what they could not eat, doesn't exist anymore
peu = pu (found as ancient spelling)
cesse tout à fait [d'exister] = seems logical in the context and in ancient French
cesse tout à fait [d'exister] = seems logical in the context and in ancient French
Peer comment(s):
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Gabrielle Lyons
: peu = pu (Could cesse just mean ceased production that year, as opposed to destroyed totally?)
13 hrs
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| agree |
Christopher Crockett
: That's my sense of it. Or, "what they could not eat, ceased to exist."
20 hrs
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| agree |
Olga Koepping
: yes, ceased to exist, ie the vines had been totally destroyed
1 day 3 hrs
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22 hrs
French term (edited):
ce qu'ils n'ont peu manger, cesse tout � faict
what they don't eat, they destroy
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