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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 from the menu rather than a fixed-price meal.
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Everyday life is a key concept in cultural studies and is a specialized subject in the field of sociology.Some argue that, motivated by capitalism and industrialism's degrading effects on human existence and perception, writers and artists of the 19th century turned more towards self-reflection and the portrayal of everyday life represented in their ...
French conjunctions are words that connect words, phrases, or clauses in the French language. They are used to create more complex sentences and to show the relationships between ideas. French conjunctions can be divided into two main categories: coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. [1] [2]
Comme d'habitude" ([kɔm dabityd(ə)], French for "As usual") is a French song about the setting in of routine in a relationship, precipitating a breakup. It was composed in 1967 by Jacques Revaux , with lyrics by Claude François and Gilles Thibaut [ fr ] .
French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These are composed of two distinct parts: the stem (or root, or radix), which indicates which verb it is, and the ending (inflection), which indicates the verb's tense (imperfect, present, future etc.) and mood and its subject's person (I, you, he/she etc.) and number, though many endings can correspond to multiple tense-mood-subject ...
The elegant gentleman is a combination of English and French: 1) the hairstyle en Grecque carré à dos d'âne; [note 12] 2) an English handkerchief of black muslin; 3) an Anglo-French coat; 4) a vest en fond filoche; [note 13] 5) tight breeches en bleu mignon or strong blue worsted; 6) two large watch chains; 7) blue and white checked silk ...
France has the reputation of being a "literary culture", [84] and this image is reinforced by such things as the importance of French literature in the French educational system, the attention paid by the French media to French book fairs and book prizes (like the Prix Goncourt, Prix Renaudot or Prix Femina) and by the popular success of the ...