This
is slightly off topic, but I have been helping some folks in our museum exhibits
department translate some French documents related to an exhibit they are
preparing on the fur trade. Apparently, a favorite profanity of the
voyageurs was "saccaje chien" (with an acute accent over the "e" at the end of
saccaje). I know that chien means dog, but I have no idea what saccaje
means. I wondered if it was perhas a corruption or running together of
some other french words along the lines of "ca que je" or "chaque" or something
like that. Any French speakers or experts on the voyageurs have any
ideas how to translate this _expression_?
--Lara
Friedman-Shedlov
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Lara Friedman-Shedlov
lara.friedman-shedlov@mnhs.org
Minnesota Historical Society