pourfendre

Ne craignez rien, j'ai pourfendu le monstre, mon amour.
Fear not, I've slain the beast, my love.
Nous ne sommes pas comme Gulliver, mais comme le vicomte pourfendu d’Italo Calvino, c’est-à-dire que nous avons une moitié - la Banque centrale européenne -, mais que nous n’avons personne qui est responsable de l’économie.
We are not like Gulliver, but like Italo Calvino’s [The Cloven Viscount], we have one half, the European Central Bank, but we do not have a figure in charge of the economy.
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