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Present perfect (passé composé): literally "compound past", formed with an auxiliary verb in the present; Imperfect (imparfait), simple; Pluperfect (plus-que-parfait): literally "more than perfect", formed with an auxiliary verb in the imperfect
The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle.The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).
The passé simple is used to express: [1] an event or action, of long or short duration, that is complete, and over, but not necessarily remote in time: Le Général de Gaulle vécut 80 ans. General de Gaulle lived for eighty years. En 1991, l'équipe de France de tennis gagna la coupe Davis. In 1991, the French team won the Davis Cup.
After the end of the war, Spagnoli created a new company, breeding poultry and angora rabbits.. In 1928, Spagnoli was the person to think of the idea of using angora yarn for knitwear including shawls, boleros, and fashionable garments which she trademarked l'Angora Spagnoli.
(Georges Bizet's opera Carmen premiered a month after the Symphonie espagnole.) The Symphonie espagnole is one of Lalo's two most often played works, the other being his Cello Concerto in D minor. The orchestra consists of a piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, snare drum, triangle ...
La Fête espagnole was praised as something vital and new in French cinema, although—as observed by Tami Williams [5] —the praise was directed toward Delluc, and not Dulac. For Delluc's part, he never avoided praising Dulac's contribution to the success of the film, stating that it was "a rare example of complete cooperation in French cinema.