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Le Parti pris des choses is a collection of 32 short to medium-length prose poems by the French poet and essayist Francis Ponge.It was first published in 1942.The title has been translated into English as Taking the Side of Things and as The Nature of Things.
In legal practice, foray was sanctioned by starosta officials, and was the fourth step in the execution of a legal ruling. After the guilty party refused to abandon the disputed property, starosta would call his supporters as well as opponents of the guilty party (therefore creating a temporary force of militia ) and attempt to remove the ...
en banc court hearing of the entire group of judges instead of a subset panel. en bloc as a group. en garde "[be] on [your] guard". "On guard" is of course perfectly good English: the French spelling is used for the fencing term. en passant in passing; term used in chess and in neurobiology ("synapse en passant.") En plein air en plein air
The Xbox is a home video game console manufactured by Microsoft that is the first installment in the Xbox series of video game consoles.It was released as Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market on November 15, 2001, in North America, followed by Australia, Europe and Japan in 2002. [3]
Foray is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cyril Foray (1934–2003), Sierra Leonean educator, politician, diplomat and historian; Dominique Foray (21st century), French economist; June Foray (1917–2017), an American voice actress who had worked for most of the studios which produced animated films since the 1940s
Rothwell William, « À quelle époque a-t-on cessé de parler français en Angleterre ? », Mélanges de philologie romane offerts à Charles Camproux, 1978, pp. 1075–1089. Walter Henriette, Honni soit qui mal y pense : l'incroyable histoire d'amour entre le français et l'anglais, Paris, Robert Laffont, 2001, 364 p.
The first attestation of the phrase in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1751, a time when the English and French cultures were heavily interlinked. In French, the equivalent phrase is filer à l'anglaise ("to leave English style") [3] and seems to date from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. [4]
The Appeal of 18 June (French: L'Appel du 18 juin) was the first speech made by Charles de Gaulle after his arrival in London in 1940 following the Battle of France. Broadcast to France by the radio services of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), it is often considered to have marked the beginning of the French Resistance in World War II.