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— Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (18 August 1850), written across the bottom of a letter from his wife "Ah! Coquereau, I forgot to mention one of the greatest faults of my life. I have spoken badly of Charles X!" [4] — Félix Arvers, French poet and dramatist (7 November 1850), to his confessor "I am not able to explain ...
French uses the capital É, because the use of a capital letter alters the meaning of the word (État: a State, as in a country; état: a state of being). It also cannot be shortened as coup as is often the case in English- because this literally means a "hit" in French, but can be used figuratively to mean many more things.
17-year-old Cécile spends her summer in a villa on the French Riviera with her father Raymond and his current mistress, the young, superficial, fashionable Elsa, who gets on well with Cécile. Raymond is an attractive, worldly, amoral man who excuses his serial philandering by quoting Oscar Wilde : "Sin is the only note of vivid colour that ...
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
The modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (as English does) or long and short syllables (as Latin does). This means that the French metric line is generally not determined by the number of beats, but by the number of syllables (see syllabic verse; in the Renaissance, there was a brief attempt to develop a French poetics based on long and short syllables [see "musique ...
More than 100 letters that never reached the crew of a French warship have been read for the first time since they were sent 265 years ago. Rare ‘treasure box’ of French letters opened and ...
The tragic Paris attacks left 129 dead and many more mourning. But the French refuse to be afraid. Now, the husband of one of the victims has penned a powerful note addressed to his wife's killers ...
The twenty-six letters cover Williams' visits to various locations associated with the Revolution, a history of the du Fossé family, and her own personal views alongside sociological observations. The first volume can be roughly divided into three unequal parts: [13] The Fête de la Fédération, on the eve of which the Letters begins.