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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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    à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".

  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. 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 .

  6. Guillemet - Wikipedia

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    Guillemets may also be called angle, Latin, Castilian, Spanish, or French quotes/quotation marks. [ citation needed ] Guillemet is a diminutive of the French name Guillaume , apparently after the French printer and punchcutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598), [ 5 ] though he did not invent the symbols: they first appear in a 1527 book printed by ...

  7. List of French-language academic journals - Wikipedia

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    View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

  8. Moral Injury: The Recruits - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    But some answers may come from a pilot project Rizzo is running with a Colorado National Guard special operations team scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan later this year. The project is underwritten by the U.S. Army Research Lab, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Infinite Hero Foundation , which supports troops and ...

  9. List of French-language authors - Wikipedia

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    French Language and Literature. Authors • Lit categories: French literary history Medieval 16th century • 17th century 18th century • 19th century