French: allumeurs de réverbèresEnglish translation: lamplighters 
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Art/Literary - Environment & Ecology | | French term or phrase: allumeurs de réverbères | | Descendants des « allumeurs de réverbères », ces poètes de la nuit expriment leur passion et leur vision de l’architecture et du patrimoine, en proposant des partitions de lumière, en rimes fortes ou sensibles, magistrales ou retenues |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseCarol Gullidge: 7:50pm Oct 25, 2007: Hi: can you provide a little more context - i.e., what is the connection with "Environment and Ecology"? And does "ces poètes de la nuit" refer to the descendants or the "allumeurs de réverbères"? This might help with the interpretation...
american atlas: 7:58pm Oct 25, 2007: Hi,
Unfortunately I do not have much more context....
It is in an environmental context and they placed that sentence in the middle of it....I do believe that the allumeurs de réverbères are the poets of the night.
However I wonder if there is not a game of words in there.....that is why I am not totally convinced I can use the lamplighters. .. Help :-(
katsy: 8:16pm Oct 25, 2007: See this link: http://www.dialogus2.org/EXU/uneramification.html. It doesn't give me any ideas for a translation other than lamplighter, but it could refer to a character in 'Le Petit Prince'.
katsy: 8:24pm Oct 25, 2007: reading your previous question I get the impression that your text deals with those who create/design street and urban lighting (is that so???) . In which case lamplighter would be fine...
Carol Gullidge: 8:26pm Oct 25, 2007: Katsy, I can't get the link to work, but in any case, I already mentioned the character in "Le Petit Prince" in my answer!
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 Jonathan MacKerron
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| Note from asker to answererI guess I'll stick to lamplighters. It does refer later on to the Little Prince of Saint Ex....
But after reading all notes, I think this should be the best answer for this text. I am not sure Philantropist would go here. I am lacking more context too.
Many thanks to all of you, especially that late at night!
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| lamplighters
Explanation:
for starters
| | Note from asker to answererI guess I'll stick to lamplighters. It does refer later on to the Little Prince of Saint Ex....
But after reading all notes, I think this should be the best answer for this text. I am not sure Philantropist would go here. I am lacking more context too.
Many thanks to all of you, especially that late at night! |
| Notes to answerer
Asker: C'est ce que j'ai trouvé comme définition dans le dictionnaire mais je ne suis pas sure que cela soit vraiment cela dans ce contexte, qu'en pensez vous ?
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| philanthropists
Explanation:
humanitiarians
i.e., unselfish people whose motivation is for the benefit of others, as in
Qu'est-ce qu'un allumeur de réverbères ?
Est-ce que quelqu'un vous a déjà aidé lorsque vous étiez dans une période sombre? Cette personne vous a-t-elle permis de voir plus clair, de faire vos propres choix et d'avancer malgré les difficultés, malgré les doutes, jusqu'au succès?
Cette personne était sans doute un Allumeur de réverbères.
Les Allumeurs de réverbères sont en effet des personnes qui sont animées par le désir d'aider les autres. Ils cherchent à amener l'individu à redécouvrir ce qui est fondamental pour lui afin de retrouver le sens de ce qu'il vit. Ils permettent donc à la personne de cheminer dans ce qu'elle est afin qu'elle puisse «trouver la lumière au bout du tunnel».
http://www.allumeursdereverberes.com/
There's also the famous "allumeur..." in "Le Petit prince", who carried on lighting the lamps even though his job was getting increasingly difficult, simply because that was his duty...
HTH!
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-10-25 20:18:42 GMT)
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PS, my first thought (before finding that definition) was "visionaries" or "enlightened people", but I think that connection is perhaps too facile...
| Carol Gullidge
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