Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
par des cris à effrayer tous les échos
English translation:
by shouting so loud it would have been enough to wake the dead
French term
United States
Laudable Lady Linguist
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
par des cris à effrayer tous les échos
En effet, d’après le récit qu’en fit plus tard W. A. Hofer, présent comme conseiller artistique, la réunion du Quai d’Orsay fut tempétueuse. Abel Bonnard se refusa à discuter d’échanges au sujet de l’antependium, le maréchal Pétain acceptant seulement d’en faire don à Goering. Ce qui pouvait être une façon d’écarter sa réclamation.
Étonnement de tout le monde, du Dr Bunjes en particulier qui était d’ores et déjà persuadé de l’agrément et de la bienveillance du ministre.
Le Reichsmarschall devint furieux et le manifesta par des cris à effrayer tous les échos.
Sans doute et non sans justesse, attribua-t-il sa déconvenue à ces gens des Musées qui se mêlaient de ses affaires.
Merci Beaucoup,
Barbara
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Samuël Buysschaert
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Sep 4, 2021 10:52: Barbara Cochran, MFA Created KOG entry
Sep 4, 2021 10:53: Barbara Cochran, MFA changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/123909">Barbara Cochran, MFA's</a> old entry - "par des cris à effrayer tous les échos"" to ""by shouts sufficient to wake the dead""
Sep 4, 2021 10:53: Barbara Cochran, MFA changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/123909">Barbara Cochran, MFA's</a> old entry - "par des cris à effrayer tous les échos"" to ""by shouting so loud it wold have been enough to wake the dead""
Proposed translations
by shouts sufficient to wake the dead
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Angelo Berbotto
: i think it fits nicely
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Thanks, Angelo.
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José Patrício
: wake the dead Also found in: Wikipedia. wake the dead To be extremely noisy and disruptive. - https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/wake the dead
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MoiraB
: Like Verginia, I'd tweak it and use a verb: by shouting loud enough to wake the dead
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philgoddard
: I think this sounds odd. It's not so much about the loudness as the spine-chilling rage, hence 'effrayer'.
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Verginia Ophof
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Thanks,Verginia
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Competent, rapid, responsible, elegant
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, Italian to English, and 1 more.
piercing
| I don't think "piercing" would work too well in this instance, since "piercing screams" are more like what one hears coming from someone who is being tortured and about to be killed. But thanks, anyway. |
United Kingdom
Sensible solutions
Native in: English (Variant: Wessexois)
Works in: French to English, English, English to French
with menacing/raging/intimidatory shouts
"Waking the dead" sounds a tad too extreme imo
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Note added at 12 hrs (2021-09-03 10:52:24 GMT)
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It may sound better to use a verb construction here e.g. ....and went into a raging tirade of shouting
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Samuël Buysschaert
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thanks
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Emmanuella
: Ne respecte pas le sens.
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Native English
Native in: English
Works in: Norwegian to English, Danish to English, Swedish to English
shouts that would terrify (the spirits of) the dead
United Kingdom
www.lingocraft.co.uk
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean, UK, South African)
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
echoing cries of anger // cries that burned with an echoing rage
"vented his anger with echoing cries of anger/rage"
"vented his anger with cries burning of an echoing rage"
Or something like that....just ideas but can be played around with.
Reference comments
Reunion
It came accompanied by three curators and Minister Bonnard himself, who astonished everyone by saying that the altar could only go to Germany as a personal gift from Marshal Pétain to Reichsmarschall Goering, just what the latter wished to avoid.
From the anteroom the waiting curators could hear Goering's screams of rage and accusations, quite true, of obstruction by the French museum administration."
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War, Lynn H. Nicholas 2009 (p147)
"Mais ajoute-t-il, le maréchal Pétain accepterait d'en faire don au Grand Maréchal du Reich, à titre personnel...
Un silence, Stupéfaction générale. Puis Goering se déchaîne. Trop, c'est trop. [...] Goering pousse des cris épouvantables, attrape Bonnard, casse une chaise, double de volume dans sa fureur."
Les conservateurs, qui font tapisserie dans l'entrée, écoutent, atterrés."
Le Retour de Vermeer Odile Yelnik 1983
Les événements entourant la réunion,
7 janvier,2 Avril (p24), 30 déc (p26) 1943
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/media/document/16/20/162019290...
https://www.google.fr/books/edition/The_Rape_of_Europa/-fo7jn3WTDsC?hl=en
https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Le_Retour_de_Vermeer/fv5XDwAAQBAJ?hl=en
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Barbara Carrara
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Thanks !
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AllegroTrans
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Thanks !
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philgoddard
: "Screams of rage", mentioned in your text, would fit the bill.
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Thanks !
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writeaway
: Definitely no shortage of info/references to be found on the www. Even films have been made about this.
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Emmanuella
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