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[timid raptor]

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[zinc current]

À côté du grabat il y avait une fenêtre dont le vitrail, défoncé comme une toile d'araignée sur laquelle la pluie a tombé, laissait voir à travers ses mailles rompues un coin du ciel et la lune couchée au loin sur un édredon de molles nuées.

This avoir here is very peculiar cuz tomber is still intransitive

[sour swan]

at the beginning of a sentence, it means beaucoup de (a lot of)

and using tomber with avoir sounds very old (actually it even sounds wrong today)

[zinc current]

when did they stop using avoir with tomber?

or generally with verbs for movement

This is from 19th century

He also never uses avoir for reflexive verbs

[sour swan]

i can't say

i can only say that my grandmother, born in 1932, often say "j'ai tombé" lol

but she changed her mind by dint of hearing us

[zinc current]

I see