Um, pourquoi on allumerait pas les bougies ?
Um, why don't we do the candles?
Quand un zeppelin a brûlé, les témoins ont dit qu'il allumerait le ciel de nuit.
When a zeppelin burned, the witnesses said that it would light the night sky.
Avant l'invention des formes de communication rapide moderne, certaines sociétés allumaient des feux sur des tours d'observation, qui seraient ensuite vus par la prochaine tour qui allumerait donc son propre feu, et ainsi de suite.
Before the invention of more modern forms of rapid communication, some societies would light bonfires atop watchtowers, which would then be observed by the next watchtower, which would then light its own bonfire, and so on.
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