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In Italian it is rarely used orally in the North, though in the South it can almost be used interchangeably with the Simple Past . In French , where the tense is normally termed the "past historic", it is hardly ever used orally. It is used as a narrative tense in (formal) educated writing to denote events that occurred or were completed in the past. In spoken French, this function is fulfilled by the Perfect Tense , but in educated writing, good style dictates that the perfect tense be replaced by the past historic. However, there is a tendency in modern literature written in a less formal style to replace the past historic with the perfect to give a more conversational feel. |
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