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  2. Boredom - Wikipedia

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    The French term for boredom, ennui, is sometimes used in English as well, at least since 1778. The term ennui was first used "as a French word in English;" in the 1660s and it was "nativized by 1758". [9] The term ennui comes "from French ennui, from Old French enui "annoyance" (13c.), [a] back-formation from enoiier, anuier. [9] "

  3. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    "Books" for OT or NT, as in Old Testament or New Testament. "Sailor" for AB, abbreviation of able seaman. "Take" for R, abbreviation of the Latin word recipe, meaning "take". Most abbreviations can be found in the Chambers Dictionary as this is the dictionary primarily used by crossword

  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (UK: / ˈ r uː s oʊ /, US: / r uː ˈ s oʊ /; [1] [2] French: [ʒɑ̃ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (), writer, and composer.. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational ...

  5. In Search of Lost Time - Wikipedia

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    In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust.

  6. François Rabelais - Wikipedia

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    The first book of French, rather than Latin, grammar was published in 1530, [72] followed nine years later by the language's first dictionary. [73] Spelling was far less codified. Rabelais, as an educated reader of the day, preferred etymological spelling—preserving clues to the lineage of words—to more phonetic spellings which wash those ...

  7. List of French women writers - Wikipedia

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    Anne de Seguier, 16th-century French poet and salon-holder; Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999), Russian-born French novelist, who pioneered the nouveau roman; Albertine Sarrazin (1937–1967), French-Algerian novelist, essayist, and poet; Johanna Schipper (known as "Johanna"; born 1967), Taiwanese-born French comics artist and short-story writer

  8. French official disputes passage about Emmanuel Macron in ...

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    The book, which has already had a passage removed over unverified claims of the Republican governor meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, says a planned meet-up between Noem and Macron last ...

  9. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...