< Translation:French Nursery Rhymes
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THE CURFEW[1]

Go home, people of Paris,
Shut yourselves in your lodgings;
Let all noise cease,
Leave these places,
For now is the time,
The time of curfew.


  1. ↑ Couvre-feu (s.m.), curfew, in feudal times, the ringing of a bell at eight o'clock as a signal to put out all fires and lights.


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