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Jean Follain (29 August 1903 – 10 March 1971) was a French writer, poet and corporate lawyer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the early days of his career he was a member of the "Sagesse" group. [ 4 ] Follain was a friend of Max Jacob , André Salmon , Jean Paulhan , Pierre Pussy , Armen Lubin , and Pierre Reverdy . [ 4 ]
Étienne Pasquier (7 June 1529 – 30 August 30 1615) was a French lawyer and man of letters. By his own account he was born in Paris on 7 June 1529, but according to others he was born in 1528. He was called to the Paris bar in 1549. In 1558 he became very ill by eating poisonous mushrooms and took two years to recover.
The English connotation derives from French film theory. It was popularized in the journal Cahiers du cinéma: auteur theory maintains that directors like Hitchcock exert a level of creative control equivalent to the author of a literary work. In French, the word means "author", but some expressions like cinéma d'auteur are also in use. bête ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
J.M.G. Le Clézio (born 1940), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2008; Annie Ernaux (born 1940), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2022; Marie-Reine de Jaham (born 1940) Patrick Modiano (born 1945), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2014; Daniel Maximin (born 1947) Raphaël Confiant (born 1951) Carole Achache (1952–2016) Kama Sywor Kamanda(born 1952) Patrick ...
Kelham's Dictionary of the Norman or Old French Language (1779) provided English translations of Law French terms from parliamentary and legal records.. Law French (Middle English: Lawe Frensch) is an archaic language originally based on Anglo-Norman, but increasingly influenced by Parisian French and, later, English.
The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes ...
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).