Bête
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Bête is French for
- beast, animal
- Not very bright and lacking in judgement; stupid; inept.
- Which could have been easily prevented; silly.
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Dicta
- Il faut s'abêtir by Blaise Pascal
- Bête noire
- Bête machine by Blaise Pasal
- L'homme est moitié ange, moitié bête, attributed to Persian poet Rûmi (1210-1273)
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Namesakes
- La Bête humaine an 1890 novel by Émile Zola
- La Bête humaine, a 1938 film directed by Jean Renoir
- La Bête a 1975 film by Walerian Borowczyk
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