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il s'agit de vos jours, your life is at stake.

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Consulat and Empire, governments of France from 1799 to 1804, and from 1804 to 1814, and for some months in 1815.

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n'en pensent mais, equivalent to n'en peuvent mais, can't help it, or, have nothing to do with it. This use of mais (Latin magis) is colloquial.