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Forms: histoire, histoires. - **History** is being written. L'**histoire** s'écrit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and slahatuvelli · checked, community translation · [\#13816199](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13816199) [\#12898327](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12898327)) - We must needs tell, since this is a matter of **history**. Il faut bien que nous le disions, puisque ceci est de l'**histoire**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24050) - In a sense it is the **history** after 1996. Il s'agit en un sens de l'**histoire** après 1996. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1989638) - House of European **History** Maison de l’**histoire** européenne ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2753693) - I. Foundations and **history** of competition policy I. Fondements et **histoire** de la politique de concurrence ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 30287693) ## historique Used about 3 011 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 180 · legal and administrative ≈ 454 · UN documents ≈ 2 376). - This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a matter of **history** and which has been consigned to the documents in the case:—“What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Cette résolution inexorable était tellement dans l'air du 6 juin 1832 que, presque à la même heure, dans la barricade de Saint-Merry, les insurgés poussaient cette clameur demeurée **historique** et consignée au procès: Qu'on vienne à notre secours ou qu'on n'y vienne pas, qu'importe! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25581) - This consideration is a result of the **histories** of both Europe and the United States. Cette considération est le fruit de l'évolution **historique** de l'Europe comme des États-Unis. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1427458) - A short **history** of recovery policy Bref **historique** de la politique de récupération ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5635335) - A. Overview of the **history** of the draft convention A. Survol de l ' **historique** du projet de convention ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 27115218) - I know that in this Parliament, if you criticise Belgium or the Belgians, you get fined, but I would remind you of a bit of **history**. Je sais qu'il est impossible, dans ce Parlement, de critiquer la Belgique sans se voir imposer une amende, mais permettez-moi un bref rappel **historique**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1351931) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom has a **history** of arrests for drunken driving. Tom n'en est pas à sa première arrestation pour conduite en état d'ébriété. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#952862](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/952862) [\#1153896](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1153896)) - Is it okay if I ask you a few questions about your medical **history**? Vous permettez que je vous pose quelques questions sur vos antécédents médicaux ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9943105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9943105) [\#9950830](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9950830)) - People have eaten with their fingers from the beginning of **history**. L'homme a mangé avec ses doigts depuis la nuit des temps. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#270658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/270658) [\#128746](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/128746)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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