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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Noir (or noire) is the French word for black. It may also refer to: Places
a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [36] louche
Catholicon - purported first French dictionary: 1499 Thresor de la langue françoyse tant ancienne que moderne : 1606 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française: 1694 to present Littré: 1877 Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Larousse: 1982-1985 Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle: 1866-1890 Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes
The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes ...
Noir denotes a marked darkness in theme and subject matter, generally featuring a disturbing mixture of sex and violence. [1]While related to and frequently confused with hardboiled detective fiction—due to the regular adaptation of hardboiled detective stories in the film noir style—the two are not the same. [2]
The surname Noir (literally meaning "black" in French) may refer to: Christel Noir, French author, screenwriter, and artist. Jim Noir (born 1982), English singer-songwriter; Ricardo Noir (born 1987), Boca Juniors football player; Victor Noir (1848–1870), French journalist killed by Prince Pierre Bonaparte
Nino Frank was born in Barletta, in the southern region of Apulia, a busy port town on Italy's Adriatic coast.. In the late 1920s, Frank was a supporter of the Irish writer James Joyce, along with a circle that also included Moune Gilbert, Stuart Gilbert (who helped to make the French translation of Ulysses in 1929), Paul and Lucie Léon, Louis Gillet, and Samuel Beckett.
Negrophilia was a metropolitan movement that also elicited opposition from parts of French society. The combination of African primitive music and American popular culture through presentations such as La Revue Nègre, was a threat to refined French tastes.