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formalités d’affectation ou de partage

English translation: procedures for allocating or splitting up (the collections)

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French term or phrase: formalités d’affectation ou de partage
English translation:procedures for allocating or splitting up (the collections)
Entered by: Barbara Cochran, MFA

17:23 Aug 13, 2021
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / From An Art History Book
French term or phrase: formalités d’affectation ou de partage
Contexte:


Les enlèvements commencèrent à Chambord le 7 juillet 1941a. Les collections Jacobson, Leven, Roger Lévy, Reichenbach furent amenées au Jeu de Paume et prises en charge par l’ERRb. Des expositions et des formalités d’affectation ou de partage les y attendaient, avant que leur sort ne soit définitivement fixé.

Merci Beaucoup,

Barbara
Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 08:17
Procedure for allocating or splitting up (the collections)
Explanation:
i.e. the rules they followed to distribute the artworks
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ormiston
Local time: 14:17
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Summary of answers provided
3 +6Procedure for allocating or splitting up (the collections)
ormiston
3valuables-earmarking or carve-up formalities
Adrian MM.
3manoeuvring concerning their appropriation and parcelling
Peter Field


  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
formalités d’affectation ou de partage
valuables-earmarking or carve-up formalities


Explanation:
Appropriation is ambiguous these days for hijacking someone else's culture or art, whilst 'earmarking' suggests an act done by the impounders rather than a forcible sign-over by the victims.

affectation: set aside, earmarked for a purpose > Bridge

Example sentence(s):
  • Postérieurement à la constitution du patrimoine d’affectation, des biens supplémentaires peuvent être affectés au patrimoine d’un EIRL (entrepreneur individuel à responsabilité limitée).

    Reference: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/archive/final-decision-on-car...
    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriation_(art)
Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: This wording sounds so unnatural
1 hr
  -> but the underlying idea is not, as furtively reworded by the answer chosen. The formalities included the owners queuing up to sign over 'Aryanised' works of art.
neutral  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: Depending on the style adopted, I like "earmark" and "carve up", although maybe a verbal phrasing would be a nice idea. Not sure than "valuables" is necesary.
17 hrs
  -> Thanks, Nikki. It had been in fact been a crude dispossession in a process of 'Aryanisation', described in one German book as citizens in a hall starting with 'all their possessions at one clerk's desk and ending up with abs. nothing' at the last desk.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
Procedure for allocating or splitting up (the collections)


Explanation:
i.e. the rules they followed to distribute the artworks

ormiston
Local time: 14:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 93

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Emmanuella
49 mins
agree  philgoddard
1 hr
agree  AllegroTrans
1 hr
agree  Helen Shiner
14 hrs
agree  Daryo
14 hrs
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: I'd have gone with formalities but just a matter of personal preference.
17 hrs
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
manoeuvring concerning their appropriation and parcelling


Explanation:
Exhibitions and manoeuvring concerning their appropriation and parcelling awaited them there...

Peter Field
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:17
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: I don't see "parcelling" anywhere in the source text; "parcelling-out" would be conceivable but not the best term imo// "parcelling" on its own implies packaging
17 hrs
  -> Webster's defines 'to parcel' as: "to divide into parts : DISTRIBUTE —often used with out."
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