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Closet, a word with many meanings

8/19/2021, 10:40:56 AM


Offensive writings, furniture, expressions ... Here are all the meanings of the word "closet". Cupboard. “ Offensive writing that we make public. »Strange definition than that of Féraud published in his Diction (n) critical area of ​​the French language in 1787. A century earlier, in 1688, Bossuet recalled in his Histoire des variations des Églises protestantes the famous case known as the Placards: " The cupboards," he wrote, "were scattered throughout Paris, tied up and strewn in all the

Cupboard.

Offensive writing that we make public.

»Strange definition than that of Féraud published in his Diction (n) critical area of ​​the French language in 1787. A century earlier, in 1688, Bossuet recalled in his Histoire des variations des Églises protestantes the famous case known as the Placards: "

The cupboards," he wrote, "were scattered throughout Paris, tied up and strewn in all the crossroads, tied up to the door of the king's chamber.

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Today, a child who only retains the usual meaning of the word cupboard, that of our kitchens, would have the right to wonder if the streets have not been curiously transformed into furniture sales.

But we have already understood, the closet of yesterday was certainly worth a brocade!

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What is the origin of the word closet?

And even death.

In this regard, do we remember the Placards affair?

In 1534, a pamphlet written by a pastor named Antoine de Marcourt against the mass and more generally against the Catholic religion led to the vindictiveness of François

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