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Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Sciences / Non-fiction books
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	se sont inventé des attaches fabuleuses
Context:	Ce n'est que du moment que les honneurs municipaux ont été écrasés par le pouvoir du prince que les citoyens se sont inventé [sic] sans plus de réticences des attaches fabuleuses. Text about constructing family trees (sometimes dubiously) in Renaissance Italy. Former aim was to find you were descended from some mythical/fabulous personage, but by this time (this is the last sentence before the conclusions) this is no longer the case - success in commerce sufficed as a claim to glorious antecendents.
Keywords:	Historical genealogy

 

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dreamt up/fabricated/made up an illustrious lineage/family history

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