Examples of using "Fléau" in a sentence and their english translations:
Voles in the garden are a nuisance.
Empowered, informed citizens are the scourge of any tyrant.
Heavenly ire / ne'er sent a pest more loathsome; ne'er were seen / worse plagues to issue from the Stygian mire.
In Algerian schools, children are taught how to cut the throat of a sheep and how to wash the dead. Of course no mixing between boys and girls is allowed. The Kabyles have been fighting this scourge for a long time but without any success.
"Not so; though glory wait not on the act; / though poor the praise, and barren be the gain, / vengeance on feeble woman to exact, / yet praised hereafter shall his name remain, / who purges earth of such a monstrous stain. / Sweet is the passion of vindictive joy, / sweet is the punishment, where just the pain, / sweet the fierce ardour of revenge to cloy, / and slake with Dardan blood the funeral flames of Troy."