Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux
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French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
novel from 1741. The name Bougre refers to the French term boulgre meaning bugger
Bugger
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. Allegedly the anonymous author was Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche.