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Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

Plot twist is he actually bought that chateau and now is full time painting naked French ladies lying on a chaise longue.

Probably just a chaise longue surviving the salty, damp air outside like a champ.

To keep in mind, à la longue, the best CSS is probably no CSS.

Similar but more famous is the LC4 Chaise Longue designed by Le Corbusier.

> Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

> Ainsi comprend-il notamment une longue série d'abréviations et d'acronymes In that respect it's no different than any (big) corporation in the country.

French historical model: Il est donc important de préciser que les mesures de confinement, loin d'être une simple réaction à la crise sanitaire, sont en réalité le résultat d'une longue histoire des techniques de gouvernementalité.

First known use in English comes from a 1658 translation of Blaise Pascal in 1657 > Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

That said, last week the French navy did shoot at drones around the Île Longue nuclear submarine base, but as far as I understand just one drone came within close enough range to be targeted by radio jammers (which means maybe a few hundred meters at sea) and either it went away on its own or sunk but it apparently wasn't retrieved.

I'm very sympathetic to the view that the (longue durée!) progression was eating->chariots->riding, especially as we have some evidence that for quite a while people had tried to ride horses like they already rode donkeys, back closer to the croup.

After seeing a specialist in the country, I got access to something called “ALD” (“affectation de longue durée” aka long term chronic issue).

That's why La longue durée put forward by the Annales School and by Braudel is the way to go, because with all its minuses it focuses not on the individuals or on specific events, but on the great "waves" of history.

[1] my hypothesis going in was that longue durée helps with having "story arcs" that, as they treat generalities, are not beholden to having any particular facts lining up with them, although Team of Rivals looks like it may be a counterexample?

Not really; it was more along the lines of "Ottoman-style seating" being referred to as "an ottoman", in the same way people refer to "a long chair" (chaise longue) as a "chaise".

Longue, mince, en grand deuil, douleur majestueuse, Une femme passa, d'une main fastueuse Soulevant, balançant le feston et l'ourlet; Agile et noble, avec sa jambe de statue.