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  2. Bonjour Tristesse - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In French, les objets trouvés, short for le bureau des objets trouvés, means the lost-and-found, the lost property. outré out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary ...

  4. French poetry - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Category:French words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves.As such almost all article titles should be italicized (with Template:Italic title).

  6. Category:French short story writers - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "French short story writers" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  7. Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne - Wikipedia

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    The "Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne" (English title: Poem on the Lisbon Disaster) is a poem in French composed by Voltaire as a response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. It is widely regarded as an introduction to Voltaire's 1759 acclaimed novel Candide and his view on the problem of evil .

  8. Essays (Montaigne) - Wikipedia

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    The official portrait of former French president François Mitterrand pictured him facing the camera, holding an open copy of the Essays in his hands. [ 12 ] English journalist and politician J. M. Robertson argued that Montaigne's essays had a profound influence on the plays of William Shakespeare , citing their similarities in language ...

  9. Françoise Sagan - Wikipedia

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    Sagan's first novel, Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness), was published in 1954, when she was 18 years old. It was an immediate international success. It was an immediate international success. The novel concerns the life of a pleasure-driven 17-year-old named Cécile and her relationship with her boyfriend and her widowed playboy father.