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Rebus

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This inscription was found in a cemetery of French Franciscan friars at Dole. What does it mean?

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Amendez vous, qu’attendez vous, la mort.

(From Arthur Watson, “The Rebus,” The Antiquary, December 1898.)

January 2, 2019 | Death · Puzzles

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