Thread: Yet more help with French, please
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Old 08-10-2016, 12:45 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by septentrion View Post
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
Thanks, that's most helpful.
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