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44 months ago

Barbara R Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

French > English

Subject:

General

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

promu au rang de palladium de la Belgique

Context:

Comment ce retable, de valeur exceptionnelle pour tout le monde, était-il venu chez nous affronter son destin après avoir été promu au rang de palladium de la Belgique entre les deux guerres ?

The Mystic Lamb

 

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44 months ago

martynback  See profile wrote:

after being elevated to the rank of the "Palladium of Belgium"

My comment:

Palladium = a sacred object believed to have special powers

The reference is pretty obscure - not many people would get it in French either.

So if I was translating this I would say "having achieved iconic status in Belgium".

An icon similarly being a sacred object that many people believe possesses mystical powers.

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44 months ago

martynback  See profile wrote:

However if you think the idea is specifically that the altarpiece was believed to have *protective* powers over the country, I'd keep "palladium". The Palladium was a statue of Pallas. It was believed that protecting the statue also protected the city of Troy.

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