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RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît", [1] meaning "Please respond" (literally "Respond, if it please you"), to require confirmation of an invitation. The initialism "RSVP" is no longer used much in France, where it is considered formal and old-fashioned.
"Please" is a shortening of the phrase, if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you, which is in turn a calque of the French s'il vous plaît, which replaced pray. The exact time frame of the shortening is unknown, though it has been noted that this form appears not to have been known to William Shakespeare , for ...
répondez s'il-vous-plaît. Please reply. Though francophones may use more usually "prière de répondre" or "je vous prie de bien vouloir répondre", it is common enough. restaurateur a restaurant owner. [50] Rive Gauche the left (southern) bank (of the River Seine in Paris).
If You Please (S'il Vous Plaît) is a Dada–Surrealist play co-written by the French surrealist writer and theorist André Breton and poet and novelist Philippe Soupault.. If You Please was written several years before the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto when Breton was primarily associated with Dada.
Alain Wodrascka in his 2008 book Johnny Hallyday: les adieux du rock'cœur notes how Hallyday put in his 1984 cover of Jacques Brel's "Ne me quitte pas" his special vocal qualities, i.e. his vocals that are "full of sensuality and expression of physical strength of an indestructible man, who sings as if making love".
"Ces soirées-là" (French pronunciation: [se swaʁe la], lit. ' These evenings ') is a 2000 song recorded by French singer/rapper Yannick.It was the second single from his debut album C'est ça qu'on aime and was released in March 2000.
Come What May (French: En mai, fais ce qu'il te plaît; also titled Darling Buds of May and The Evacuation) is a 2015 French war drama film directed by Christian Carion. It stars August Diehl and Olivier Gourmet in lead roles, and was released on 4 November 2015. The film score was composed by Ennio Morricone.
— Dominique Bouhours, French priest and grammarian (27 May 1702) "With all my heart: I would fain be reconciled to my stomach, which no longer performs its usual functions." [5]: 57 — Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier, author and hedonist (29 September 1703), when a clergyman asked if he would be reconciled "Thy will be done."