"Toujours pur" - Black family motto?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 113929

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kizor0" <ryokas at h...> wrote:

Kizor:
> Hi. This can't be the first time this subject is discussed but the
> search tool of dubious usefulness came up with no other instances.
> 
> In "The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black" chapter six of OotP
> (page 103 English hardback), the Black family tree features the 
words
> 'Toujours pur'. What on Earth does that mean?

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Geoff:
Hmmm. Babelfish obviously needs his aquarium cleaned out.

It's "always pure" (or unsullied or clean etc. etc.)

My schoolboy French of X years ago suggested that before I attacked 
my Concise Oxford French dictionnaire for confirmation.

Geoff
Enjoy Exmoor and the 
heritage West Somerset Railway at:
http://www.aspectsofexmoor.com