French: A Clovis côme il fult notoireEnglish translation: To Clovis as the story tells 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | A Clovis côme il fult notoire | | English translation: | To Clovis as the story tells | | Entered by: | Mark Nathan |
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Art/Literary - History / Reims | | French term or phrase: A Clovis côme il fult notoire | A Clovis côme il fult notoire
Ung barrit de vin prépara
Et luy dilt tu auras victoire
Autant que le vin durera.
This is the story about St Remi giving Clovis a flask of blessed wine and telling him to drink some everyday and to pursue his foes so long as there was still some left.
The other lines I was going to translate as:
A barrel of wine did prepare for him
And declare that he would be victorious
So long as there remained wine within |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseMark Nathan (asker): 10:21pm Jan 26, 2005: Be assured that there are no errors in my transcription of the text -
NancyLynn: 10:27pm Jan 26, 2005: As in notaire? ;-) -
xxxdf49f: 11:07pm Jan 26, 2005: why don't you use "notorious" for notoire (it even rhymes with victorious!) - its first meaning is not necessarily unfavorable - and it reflects perfectly the French (il fult notoire- it became well-known)
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Charlie Bavington: 12:51am Jan 27, 2005: to df49f - as I'm sure Mark would tell you, notorious nowadays means only "famous for negative reasons". -
traviata: 1:10am Jan 27, 2005: My Oxford Thesaurus lists: INFAMOUS, scandalous; well known, famous, famed, legendary. I like this last one: I'll try to rhyme something with it :) -
Yakov Tomara: 6:43am Jan 27, 2005: "barril" rather than "barrit" AFAIK (www.maisons-champagne.com/glatre/ pages/02_gallo_romains/evenements/0036v.htm ) -
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| | Another try | Explanation:
To Clovis, as the story tells,
He gave a cask bunged tight and fast
And said, 'You'll hear the victory bells
While this my wine will last.' |
| Selected response from:
 Yakov Tomara
Ukraine
| Note from asker to answererPerfect, thanks very much
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