French term
Une vie en six dates.
My lawyer has now spoken at length about his life (studies, cases, father)
At the end of the article, the journalist has written 'Une vie en six dates'
Here are the dates/events (to save writeaway the bother of publishing them !)
1956 : Naissance à Lille
1982 : Thèse Sport et Politique
1990 : Prête serment
1992 : Ecrit un livre pour enfants, Le Petit Poisson Rouge, chez Nathan.
2005 : Victoire dans le dossier Grimonprez-Jooris II.
2012 : Parvient à faire suspendre la délibération du Conseil Général du Pas-de-Calais dans le dossier du stade Bollaert.
I don't think I can say 'the happiest days of his life' or anything like that in view of the contents and what is missing as well -marriage, children -(but maybe they aren't the happiest days of your life !)
And I can't say anything like, 'the highlights of his career' as some of the dates have nothing to do with that
So I'm stumped and looking for help in a CALM atmosphere cos I've just got up and I'm feeling a bit under the weather today
Thanks in advance for your help
| 4 +8 | One life. Six milestones. |
Sarah Bessioud
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| 4 +3 | A life in six dates |
Victoria Britten
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| 5 | The six high points in X's life: |
kashew
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| 3 | A career in six dates. |
cc in nyc
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Non-PRO (1): Rob Grayson
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Proposed translations
Germany
A way with words
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, US) 
Works in: German to English, French to English, English
One life. Six milestones.
Hope your day gets better ;-)
France
Tracking the right turn of phrase
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: French to English, English, French
A life in six dates
(FYI, my preference would have been for "Six key dates")
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Helen Shiner
: Especially with 'six key dates' but if we're translating...
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writeaway
: it's listed in a box: http://dailynord.fr/2012/11/manuel-gros-avocat-des-stades-ma... so key dates works well. it's a newspaper article.
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Daryo
: that's the ST.
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The six high points in X's life:
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writeaway
: not the only way to translate it and doesn't really fit the context: http://dailynord.fr/2012/11/manuel-gros-avocat-des-stades-ma...
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I think it sums up the list very well. For me it's a title and look what is done to book/film titles.
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