{"id":1069,"date":"2012-02-08T16:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T15:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2012-02-08T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:00:01","slug":"en-flagrant-delit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"En flagrant d\u00e9lit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Au violon :<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Le violon d\u00e9signe la prison en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, ou, plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, une cellule du poste de police, avec grille, o\u00f9 sont enferm\u00e9es provisoirement les personnes prises en flagrant d\u00e9lit :<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Le violon&#8217; designates prison in general or, more exactly, a cell with a metal grille in a police station where are held, provisionally, those caught in the act\/caught red-handed.\u00a0(Note: In England the phrase &#8216;en flagrant d\u00e9lit&#8217;, on the whole,\u00a0suggests a sexual connotation but here it refers, of course, to an act of theft or violence.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crainquebille, dont l&#8217;arrestation fut maintenue, passa la nuit au violon et fut transf\u00e9r\u00e9, le matin, dans le panier \u00e0 salade, au d\u00e9p\u00f4t.&#8221; :<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crainquebille, who was arrested, spent the night in the cells and was transferred, in the morning, in the police van (Note: literally &#8216;le panier \u00e0 salade&#8217; is &#8216;a salad-shaker&#8217;), to the jail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anatole France : Crainquebille (1904).<\/p>\n<p>Taken from: &#8216;Pourquoi dit-on ? 2012&#8217; by Delphine Gaston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Au violon : Le violon d\u00e9signe la prison en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, ou, plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, une cellule du poste de police, avec grille, o\u00f9 sont enferm\u00e9es provisoirement les personnes prises en flagrant d\u00e9lit : &#8216;Le violon&#8217; designates prison in general or, more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1069\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[97,77],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-hf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}