subsister

C'était le seul corps qui subsistât de l'ancienne armée.
This was the only unit left over from the old army.
Il était inévitable qu'une telle tendance subsistât en Allemagne, le pays de la petite bourgeoisie par excellence, à une époque où en masse cette petite bourgeoisie, depuis longtemps solidement en place, est violemment déracinée par le développement industriel.
The existence of such a tendency is quite inevitable in Germany, the land of philistinism par excellence, particularly at a time when industrial development is violently and on a mass scale doing away with this old and deeply-rooted philistinism.
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