Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

travaillée par cent ans de positivisme patrimonial

English translation:

shaped by a hundred years of heritage idealism

Added to glossary by Angie Taylor
May 1, 2012 22:19
12 yrs ago
French term

travaillée par cent ans de positivisme patrimonial

French to English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general) heritage
I'm finding it hard to find something I like for the last part of this sentence and I'd be very grateful for any suggestions.

Here's the full sentence:

Transformer le château en musée, donc l’ouvrir à la visite alors qu’il avait toujours été inaccessible à la population, et le musée en monument, c’est-à-dire pérenniser son existence et anoblir son statut, a paru naturel en ce tournant du XXe siècle, travaillé par cent ans de positivisme patrimonial.

Sadly no context as it's a stand-alone sentence. I don't even know which château it is.

Thanks in advance

Proposed translations

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Selected

shaped by a hundred years of heritage idealism

suggestion.
Peer comment(s):

agree Letredenoblesse
7 mins
merci Agnès
agree Peter LEGUIE : How about "worn out"?
4 days
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influenced by hundred years of legacy positivism

I assume that "legacy positivism" is as unusual in English as "positivisme patrimonial" is in English.


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Note added at 4 hrs (2012-05-02 03:09:59 GMT)
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Sorry for the typo; I wanted to say as "positivisme patrimonial" is in French.
Peer comment(s):

neutral Tony M : Quite! Except that surely here 'patrimoine' is 'heritage' rather than 'legacy'?
1 hr
agree Emiliano Pantoja
1 hr
neutral Paul KLINKENBORG (X) : surely: "influenced by 'a' hundred years..."
8 hrs
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