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Chausses

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n. pl.1.The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.


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These words were written by Charles Cazalet in a 1908 letter to the mayor of Bordeaux, but they reflected similar remarks made in a 1906 article in l'Economist francais by Emile Cheysson, Inspecteur general des Ponts et Chausses, and an important figure in French poor relief.
Hodges, a former IRS estate tax lawyer, holds an MBA in international business from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausses in Paris and is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
 
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