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67 20 — Pour me mettre à la gêne : To torture me. Gêne

is found in Old French spelt gesne, gehine, géhenne, and cornes from the Latin gehema (derived from the Hebrew), a valley by Jérusalem where children were burnt as an offering to Moloch. Mettre à la gêne, same as mettre à la question, to torture. Gêne now signifies inconvenience, trouble, involved circumstances.