Coeur fou
Comment un couvre-feu se change en cœur fou, c’est-à-dire curfew…
Indian curfew after students shot | BBC News, Calcutta
Soldiers are helping to enforce a curfew in a strife-hit region of India’s north-eastern Meghalaya state after police shot dead 12 protesters.
Je dégaine mon AHD qui dit:
cur·few n.
1. A regulation requiring certain or all people to leave the streets or be at home at a prescribed hour.
2.a. The time at which such a restriction begins or is in effect: a 10 P.M. curfew for all residents.
b. The signal, such as a bell, announcing the beginning of this restriction.
[Middle English curfeu, from Old French cuevrefeu : covrir, to cover; see COVER + feu, fire (from Latin focus, hearth).]
strife n.
1. Heated, often violent dissension; bitter conflict. See Synonyms at discord.
2. A struggle, fight, or quarrel.
3. Contention or competition between rivals.
4. Archaic. Earnest endeavor or striving.
[Middle English strif, from Old French estrit, estrif, from Frankish *strºd.]
Tout ceci serait tellement moins triste si ce n’était à propos de l’assassinat de 12 jeunes indiens par des policiers tout aussi jeunes et tout aussi indiens.