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  2. RSVP - Wikipedia

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    RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît", [1] meaning "Please respond" (literally "Respond, if it please you"), to require confirmation of an invitation. The initialism "RSVP" is no longer used much in France, where it is considered formal and old-fashioned.

  3. Ces soirées-là - Wikipedia

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    "Ces soirées-là" (French pronunciation: [se swaʁe la], lit. ' These evenings ') is a 2000 song recorded by French singer/rapper Yannick.It was the second single from his debut album C'est ça qu'on aime and was released in March 2000.

  4. Come What May (film) - Wikipedia

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    Come What May (French: En mai, fais ce qu'il te plaît; also titled Darling Buds of May and The Evacuation) is a 2015 French war drama film directed by Christian Carion. It stars August Diehl and Olivier Gourmet in lead roles, and was released on 4 November 2015. The film score was composed by Ennio Morricone.

  5. Preface (band) - Wikipedia

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    Preface is a French musical band established in 1986 with members Manu Katché on vocals and drums, Jean-Yves D'Angelo (keyboards and vocals) and Kamil Rustam (guitars and vocals). The band was signed to Phonogram and had an extended debut single Palace Hotel [1] [2] on Anya record label. They followed it up with a second single S'il Te Plait.

  6. Please - Wikipedia

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    "Please" is a shortening of the phrase, if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you, which is in turn a calque of the French s'il vous plaît, which replaced pray. The exact time frame of the shortening is unknown, though it has been noted that this form appears not to have been known to William Shakespeare , for ...

  7. If You Please - Wikipedia

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    If You Please (S'il Vous Plaît) is a Dada–Surrealist play co-written by the French surrealist writer and theorist André Breton and poet and novelist Philippe Soupault.. If You Please was written several years before the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto when Breton was primarily associated with Dada.

  8. Ne me quitte pas - Wikipedia

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    Caro Emerald as a digital download performed in both French and English. 2017 Wyclef Jean on J'ouvert (EP). Gela Guralia 23 June in Saint-Petersburg in both French and English; Arabic. 2012: Mashrou' Leila's version "ما تتركني هيك - ne me quitte pas". Indie band from Lebanon performed the cover-version at Paleo Festival Nyon ...

  9. 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 ...