Thread: Yet more help with French, please
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Old 08-09-2016, 07:36 AM   #8
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king of thunes = king of beggars
Source: Littré dictionary, a French dictionary of the 19th Century http://www.littre.org/definition/thune

le grand Coësre is more or less a synonym of king of thunes
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/co%C3%ABsre
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