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

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Law / Certificates
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	peine
Context:	....que ledit Michel soit tenu de fournir autre chose que les outils & la peine des ouvriers. This is from an early 18C building contract. 'La peine' is clearly something positive rather than negative (misery, suffering) and I wondered if it could be 'pain' [M] and that the definite article has been mistranscribed to fit 'peine' [F] - a final 'n' often has a stroke after it which can look like another letter. Or is there an archaic use of 'la peine'? NB I'm having to work from the typed transcription.
Keywords:	Historic documents

 

The answer of    was rated best

workers' efforts/manpower

My comment:

One possible translation of "peine" is "effort", but I think "manpower" would actually be more appropriate/accurate.

My references:

reverso.com

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