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sanglier

n. (context obsolete English) A full-grown wild boar.

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Henri Sanglier stood much longer at his window, wondering what the meeting had been about.

After only a few months at Europol, Sanglier was familiar with the suspicion in which he was held by most of the other commissioners, who disdained his appointment as the nepotism of a legend.

There was a shift of discomfort around the table and Sanglier decided it could not have been going better for him.

Several other commissioners whom Sanglier guessed held him in the same disdain frowned, too.

So she was intrigued by the prospect of meeting Henri Sanglier for the first time.

Not that Henri Sanglier had ever been regarded as a minor dynastic figure.

Which extended to being professionally dispassionate towards Henri Sanglier himself.

How often and in what circumstances might Sanglier have considered the irony of his now working from such a building after what his father had done?

So despite the name and his position, Sanglier worked hard at achieving respect.

Balancing that immediate interpretation Claudine conceded the positioning put Sanglier directly in front of the window expanse, a natural location.

The old man had been much fuller faced, although similarly moustached, but Henri Sanglier was patrician by comparison to his peasant-like father.

Having lighted one, Sanglier put the Gauloises packet beside the ashtray.

Europol psychologists and that Sanglier was confirming her place on the task force.

The response from the second man, whom Sanglier introduced as Superintendent Bruno Siemen, seconded from the organized crime bureau of the Bundeskriminalamt, was almost as obsequious and Claudine guessed Poulard had briefed the German while they waited outside.

Claudine divided her concentration between the facts of the briefing, with which she felt sufficiently familiar, and how Sanglier conducted it.