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Louis-François Jauffret (4 October 1770 – 11 December 1840) was an 18th–19th-century French educator, poet and fabulist. Gaspard-André Jauffret [], bishop of Metz, Jean-Baptiste Jauffret, director of the imperial institution of the deaf in St. Petersburg and Joseph Jauffret [], master of requests to the Conseil d'État, were his brothers.
Français fondamental (French for 'Fundamental French') is a list of words and grammatical concepts, devised in the beginning of the 1950s for teaching foreigners and residents of the French Union, France's colonial empire. A series of investigations in the 1950s and 1960s showed that a small number of words are used the same way orally and in ...
Casimir, the mascot of the show. L'Île aux enfants was a French children's television show that was broadcast from 1975 to 1982. The show was broadcast first as part of the youth program Jeunes Années on the third color channel of the ORTF from September 16, 1974 to January 3, 1975, then from January 6, 1975 to February 14, 1975 as a separate program on FR3 before being broadcast for seven ...
"Il était un petit navire" (pronounced [il‿etɛt‿œ̃ pət'i nav'iʁ], lit. ' There was a little ship ') is a traditional French song that is now considered a children's song, despite its macabre tone.
Aside from playing the organ and composing music, Corrette organized concerts and taught music. He wrote nearly twenty music method books for various instruments—the violin, cello, bass, flute, recorder, bassoon, harpsichord, harp, mandolin, voice and more—with titles such as l'Art de se perfectionner sur le violon (The Art of Playing the Violin Perfectly), le Parfait Maître à chanter ...
The Old Cat and the Young Mouse (Le vieux chat et la jeune souris, XII.5) The Old Man and his Sons (Le vieillard et ses fils, IV.18) The Old Man and the Ass (Le vieillard et l'âne, VI.8) Phoebus and Boreas (Phébus et Borée, VI.3) The thieves and the ass (Les voleurs et l’âne, I.13) The torrent and the river (Le torrent et la rivière ...
Le langage d'il y a cent ans est très différent de celui d'aujourd'hui. – "The language/usage of one hundred years ago is very different from that of today." In informal speech, il y is typically reduced to [j], as in: Y a [ja] deux bergers et quinze moutons dans le pré. Y aura [joʁa] beaucoup à manger. Y avait [javɛ] personne chez les ...
University of Chicago, The ARTFL Project, Dictionnaires d'autrefois, Full text, searchable French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.Includes: Dictionnaire de L'Académie française: 1st (1694), 4th (1762), 5th (1798), 6th (1835), and 8th (1932–5) editions; Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue française (1606), Jean-François Féraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue ...