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Les descendants des grands princes furent réduits à l'état d'esclaves et de serfs; ils furent de plus en plus poussés vers les terres les moins productives et punis socialement en raison de leur désir obstiné de préserver certaines habitudes qui étaient celles d'un peuple vaincu et exploité sans merci. «À dos d'Indien», disait-on dans la Colombie coloniale, lorsque les autochtones servaient de moyen de transport à travers les sentiers impossibles de la Cordillère.
The descendants of the great princes became slaves, vassals of the plough. They were forced increasingly into the least productive lands, socially chastized for their obstinate desire to cling to practices that were those of a conquered people, exploited mercilessly. “On the back of an Indian” was an expression used in Colombia in colonial days when the natives were used as means of transportation to cross the impossible mountain paths.
Mon seigneur Sinbad est un grand prince chez lui.
My lord Sinbad is a very great prince in his country.
C'est au grand-prince, saint Alexandre Nevski, que nous devons ces paroles inouïes :
As the Great Prince St. Alexander Nevsky wonderfully put it:
C'est pourquoi on le considère comme le Grand Prince de la Forêt.
That's why he's known as "The Great Prince of the Forest".
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