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Ange de Grève (French)

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a hangman or executioner. The “Place de Grève” was at one time the Tyburn of Paris.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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