>His last words were "The cows..." I doubt this. In French, "vache" means cow, but it also means terrific or terrible. It's essentially an emphatic noun, whose

>His last words were "The cows..." I doubt this. In French, "vache" means cow, but it also means terrific or terrible. It's essentially an emphatic noun, whose meaning depends on context and tone of voice. Given the plural, the tendency would be to believe he meant something like "the bastards." Of course, given the rest of the article, Satie could easily have meant "the cows," although I strongly doubt it.