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  2. 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 ...

  3. Alain Resnais - Wikipedia

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    Alain Resnais (French: [alɛ̃ ʁɛnɛ]; 3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades.After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct short films including Night and Fog (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations found in a standard dictionary, such as:

  5. List of Arthurian characters - Wikipedia

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    (Latin: Caractacus), (Welsh: Caradog Freichfras), (French: Carados Briefbras) Perceval, the Story of the Grail, the Mabinogion: Rebelled against Arthur when he first became king, but later supported him, sometimes two characters—Caradoc the Elder (a king) and Caradoc the Younger (a knight) Catigern (Welsh: Cattegirn)

  6. Translations of One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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    In 1923 a translation by Edward Powys Mathers based on the French translation by J. C. Mardrus appeared. Another attempt at translation was made by John Payne (The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, 1882–84). Payne printed only 500 copies, for private distribution, and ceded the work to Richard Francis Burton.

  7. Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia

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    A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.

  8. Category:Medieval French knights - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Medieval French knights" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  9. List of French novelists - Wikipedia

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    Louis Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961), author of Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan or Mort à Crédit; Rose Celli (1895–1982) Henri de Montherlant (1895–1972) Jean Giono (1895–1970)