Jiisama ga Iku - Vol. 2 Ch. 7 - Old man and the lost child

Gotta add to the choir, but also lift up where PR went wrong. Coup is French for "strike" or "blow", "coup de pied" (strike with foot) is a kick, etc.

Coup d'etat is thus a strike at (or with) the government, supplanting it with your own. (A coup d'etat that fails is called a Putsch.)

However, since "Coup" is a generic word, it also came to be used for the plains indian custom (native americans) to perform brave deeds of assault or robbery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_coup which is what the PR seems to have hung up on.
 

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