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In Wikipedia articles and article titles, French titles of creative works should be put into English, if the work is well known by its title in English (with redirects from the French title). Examples: The Tales of Hoffmann, an opera by Offenbach; The Marriage of Figaro, a play by Beaumarchais; Sunflowers, a painting by van Gogh. If the work is ...
Ronde ('round' in French) is a kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look. [1] It appeared in France at the end of the 16th century, growing out from a late local variant of Gothic cursive influenced by North Italian Renaissance types in Rotunda , a bookish round Gothic ...
medley, mixture; French write it pot-pourri, literally 'rotten pot': primarily a pot in which different kinds of flowers or spices are put to dry for years for the scent. précis a concise summary. In French, when talking about a school course, it means an abridged book about the matter. Literally, précis means precise, accurate. première
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 ...
Belles-lettres (French pronunciation: [bɛl lɛtʁ]) is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing.In the modern narrow sense, it is a label for literary works that do not fall into the major categories such as fiction, poetry, or drama.
For such nouns, there will very often be one noun of each gender, with the choice of noun being determined by the natural gender of the person described; for example, a male singer is un chanteur, while a female singer is either une chanteuse (a pop singer) or une cantatrice (an opera singer). A plural noun that refers to both males and females ...
Examples of a general format of this, both in the individual and communal laments, can be seen in Psalm 3 and Psalm 44 respectively. [ 9 ] The Lament of Edward II , if it is actually written by Edward II of England , is the sole surviving composition of his.
An eyebrow lift is a cosmetic surgery to raise the eyebrow, usually to create a more feminine or youthful appearance. It is not a new phenomenon, with the earliest description of brow lifting published in medical literature in 1919 by French surgeon Raymond Passot. [7] Brows can be affected during a face lift or an eye lift.