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Naufrage

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Nau´frage
n.1.Shipwreck; ruin.

naufrage - An old word for shipwreck or ruin.
See also related terms for ruin.


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The contradiction between the hope of the migrants and the risk of failing to reaching their destination was captured in the work's beautiful title, Les Naufrages de lespoir ('Hopes shipwrecked'; Fig.
Elle continue d'abord sordidement pour le vieux baron, passe progressivement au statut de centenaire : << il revenait presque centenaire, casse, voute, la physionomie degradee >> (457), partant exercer sous d'autres cieux un libertinage qui survit au naufrage de toutes ses facultes.
Three of these works--L'Ersatz d'amour (1923) and Le Naufrage (1924), both written with Suzanne de Callias, and Le Troisieme Sexe (1927)--dealt specifically with male homosexuality.
 
 
 
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