Translations for talisman in French

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"I have nothing to conceal," she said, proudly raising her head. "It was the most wretched and the most dangerous period of my life. While suffering humiliation at home, outside I was surrounded with attentions, with temptations, with pitfalls, like any woman who is seen to be neglected by her husband. Then I remembered: before my marriage, a man had been in love with me. I had guessed his unspoken love; and he has died since. I had the name of that man engraved inside the ring; and I wore it as a talisman. There was no love in me, because I was the wife of another. But, in my secret heart, there was a memory, a sad dream, something sweet and gentle that protected me. . . ."

— Je n’ai rien à cacher, fit-elle en relevant la tête. C’était à l’époque la plus misérable et la plus dangereuse de ma vie. Humiliée chez moi, dans le monde j’étais entourée d’hommages, de tentations, de pièges, comme toute femme qu’on voit abandonnée de son mari. Alors, je me suis souvenue… Avant mon mariage, un homme m’avait aimée, dont j’avais deviné l’amour impossible et qui, depuis, est mort. J’ai fait graver le nom de cet homme, et j’ai porté cet anneau comme on porte un talisman. Il n’y avait pas d’amour en moi puisque j’étais la femme d’un autre. Mais dans le secret de mon cœur, il y eut un souvenir, un rêve meurtri, quelque chose de doux qui me protégeait…

The Confessions of Arsene Lupin, by Maurice Leblanc

Les Confidences d’Arsène Lupin, de Maurice Leblanc