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Si les gens de Gad et de Ruben avaient rétorqué dans le même esprit, la guerre eût éclaté.
Had the men of Gad and Reuben retorted in the same spirit, war would have been the result.
Peu après que la seconde guerre mondiale eut éclaté en 1939, la Suisse était encerclée par l’Allemagne et ses alliés.
Not long after the Second World War broke out in 1939, Switzerland was surrounded by Germany and its allies.
Nous avions passé plus d'une semaine au Casino de Bissau où nous nous étions rassemblés après que la guerre eut éclaté en juin 2007.
We had spent more than a week at the Casino in Bissau, where we had congregated after the war broke out in June, 2007.
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