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La plume de ma tante ("the quill of my aunt") is a phrase attributed to elementary French language instruction (possibly as early as the 19th century [1]) and used as an example of grammatically correct phrases with limited practical application that are sometimes taught in introductory foreign language texts.
Épater la bourgeoisie or épater le (or les) bourgeois is a French phrase that became a rallying cry for the French Decadent poets of the late 19th century including Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. [1] It means "to shock or scandalise the (respectable) middle classes." [2]