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In "L'ombre même le cède à certaine agonie" what does 'le' refer to?
The line is from Valery's La Jeune Parque. 'Le' cannot refer to 'ombre' since it is feminine. And I doubt it refers to some general thing such as 'reality' like in the sentence 'it rains'. So I'm ...
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Meaning of “en” in “il en est un …”
Mais parmi les chacals, les panthères, les lices,
Les singes, les scorpions, les vautours, les serpents,
Les monstres glapissants, hurlants, grognants, rampants,
Dans la ménagerie infâme de nos vices,
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