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Pierre Merle

Pierre Merle is a Paris-based journalist. His dictionary of modern slang, Le dico de l’argot fin de siècle, was published by Seuil in 1997.

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Pierre Merle

The following examples of contemporary French slang come from Le Dico de l'Argot fin-de-siècle compiled by a Parisian journalist, Pierre Merle.

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