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L'État, c'est moi ("I am the state", lit. "the state, it is me") is an apocryphal saying attributed to Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre. It was allegedly said on 13 April 1655 before the Parlement of Paris . [ 1 ]
l'État, c'est moi! lit. "I am the state!" — attributed to the archetypal absolute monarch, Louis XIV of France. étude a musical composition designed to provide practice in a particular technical skill in the performance of an instrument. French for "study." étui small ornamental case for needles or cosmetics. excusez-moi "Excuse me ...
The examples are taken from French, which uses the disjunctive first person singular pronoun moi. The (sometimes colloquial) English translations illustrate similar uses of me as a disjunctive form. in syntactically unintegrated disjunct (or "dislocated") positions; Les autres s'en vont, mais moi, je reste. The others are leaving, but me, I'm ...
The French form of the phrase is far better known in English than the translated version. Maybe a cute anecdote will illustrate: back in the 90s, I worked for an American African magazine, we had a cover story on the recent authoritarian tendencies of Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi. The title imposed itself irresistibly: "L'Etat c'est Moi".
It is also known with the lyrics "le roi, la reine et le petit prince" (the king, the queen, and the little prince) and "Puisque c'est comme ça" rather than "Puisque c'est ainsi" (both "because it's like this" or "since this is how it is"). This song is used to teach the days of the week to children in French.
The imperative suffixes moi + en and moi + y give as a result m’en and m’y, and analogically toi + en and toi + y become t’en and t’y. However, in colloquial speech the expressions moi-z-en, toi-z-en; moi-z-y and toi-z-y have become widespread (also registered as -z’en and -z’y).
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Madame Bovary (/ ˈ b oʊ v ə r i /; [1] French: [madam bɔvaʁi]), originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (French: Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province [madam bɔvaʁi mœʁ(s) də pʁɔvɛ̃s]), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857.