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cachet. lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque.
The Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) French for Arab World Institute, is an organisation founded in Paris in 1980 by France with 18 Arab countries to research and disseminate information about the Arab world and its cultural and spiritual values. The Institute was established as a result of a perceived lack of representation for the Arab world in ...
Les mille et une nuits, contes arabes traduits en français (lit. 'The Thousand and One Nights, Arab stories translated into French'), published in 12 volumes between 1704 and 1717, was the first European version of The Thousand and One Nights tales. The French translation by Antoine Galland (1646–1715) derived from an Arabic text of the ...
François-Nicolas Nau was the last of five children of François-Nicolas Nau and Marguerite Longueville. He attended primary school at Longwy until 1878, then the "petit séminaire" of Notre-Dame des Champs at Paris, then the "Grand Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice" in 1882.
Sidi Mohamed, the narrator, a young boy (6 years old) who lives with his parents on the second floor of Dar Chouafa, the house of Aunt Kenza, the fortune teller. Lalla (Mrs.) Zoubida, mother of Sidi Mohammed. Maalam Abdeslam, father of Sidi Mohammed, a weaver by trade. Aunt Kenza, the Chouafa (fortune teller), who lives on the ground floor and ...
Lucien Leclerc - Histoire de la médecine arabe 1876. Nicholas Lucien Leclerc (Ville-sur-Illon, 1816-Ville-sur-Illon, 1893) was a French military doctor, translator, and influential early western historian of medicine in the medieval Islamic world. [1] He was an assistant military surgeon in Algeria from 1840-1844. [2]
OCLC. 46937451. In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong (French: Les Identités Meurtrières) is a 1998 book by Amin Maalouf, in which he discusses the identity crisis that Arabs have experienced since the establishment of continuous relationships with the west, adding his personal dimension as a Lebanese Christian. [1]
Crêpes, onion soup, and escargots are some of the best-known French dishes around the world, and they're the ones I often see visitors order in Paris. Those meals are delicious, but they aren't ...