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Le siècle
A masculine noun used to denote a period of one hundred years. In French, centuries are almost always written using Roman numerals.
Examples in context
Nous vivons actuellement au vingt-et-unième siècle.
We are currently living in the twenty-first century.
Le dix-septième siècle était l'âge d'or français.
The seventeenth century was the French golden age.
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