Les Misérables vocabulary

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Picardy

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Definition:
a region in northern France which, on January 1, 2016, became part of Hauts-de-France.

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He was a native of Picardy, and very passionate; a man to take offence at anything in order that he might throw the landlord out the window in all security of conscience. Now he said these words with the air of a man of immense wealth.

Honoré de Balzac. Droll Stories.
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For two hundred francs a year he managed to live on the border of the provinces of Caux and Picardy, in a kind of place half farm, half private house; and here, soured, eaten up with regrets, cursing his luck, jealous of everyone, he shut himself up at the age of forty-five, sick of men, he said, and determined to live at peace.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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