Notes and Queries I

[David Simpson]

Yes, exactly. (Since Fausto seems to have been at least partly based on the
Provençal philologist and 1904 Nobel prizewinning poet Frederic Mistral.)

KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:

> In einer eMail vom 03.10.00 13:45:44 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt
> dsimpson at condor.depaul.edu:
>
> << I believe a majistral is also some kind of Mediterranean weather front. >>
> You mean the "mistral"???????
>
> Kurt-Werner Pörtner

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