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French
Pronunciation
Adverb
à l’époque
- at the time, back then
- Synonyms: dans le temps, en ce temps-là
Philippe Val, à l’époque son directeur, avait décidé de publier en France les caricatures danoises de Mahomet.- Philippe Val, the director at the time, had decided to publish in France the Danish cartoons of Muhammad.
1853, Guillaume Pauthier, Chine moderne, ou description historique, géographique et littéraire de ce vaste empire, page 335:Ce n’est qu’à l’époque où l’on a commencé à avoir un fonds de signes suffisants pour écrire des livres, que l’on trouve l’usage des groupes phonétiques.- It was only at the time when people began to have enough signs to write books that one finds the first usage of phonetic groups.
1936, André de Richaud, L'amour fraternel:Cette femme de bronze le ramenait à son enfance, à ses rêves chauds d’adolescent. Ces rêves, qui à l’époque n’étaient que des promesses de joies inconnues et qu’il avait peu à peu laissés derrière lui.- This bronze woman took him back to his childhood, to breathless adolescent dreams, which at the time were merely promises of unknown joy and which he had, little by little, left behind.