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La petite mort (French pronunciation: [la pətit mɔʁ]; lit. ' the little death ') is an expression that refers to a brief loss or weakening of consciousness, and in modern usage refers specifically to a post-orgasm sensation as likened to death. [1] The first attested use of the expression in English was in 1572 with the meaning of "fainting ...
La Mort aux Juifs (French pronunciation: [la mɔʁ o ʒɥif]) was a hamlet under the jurisdiction of the French commune of Courtemaux in the Loiret department in north-central France. Its name has been translated as "Death to Jews" [ 1 ] [ 2 ] or "The death of the Jews".
Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Tombeau sur la mort de M. Cajetan Baron d'Hartig, Tombeau sur la mort de M. Comte de Losy; Jacques de Saint-Luc: Tombeau sur la mort de Mr Francois Ginter; Roman Turovsky-Savchuk: Tombeau sur la mort de Omelyan Kovch, Tombeau sur la mort de Petro Kalnyshevsky; François Campion [fr; de; pl]: Tombeau de Mr. de Maltot
Michel, chevalier de Cubières (27 September 1752 – 23 August 1820) was an 18th-century French writer, known under the pen-names of Palmézaux and Dorat-Cubières, taking the latter name as he had Claude Joseph Dorat as his master.
Pache, mayor of the Paris Commune, painted the formula "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, ou la mort" on the walls of the commune. It was under the Third Republic that the motto was made official. It was then not dissociated with insurrection and revolutionary ardours, Opportunist Republicans such as Jules Ferry or Gambetta adapting it to the ...
Vocabulaire de la langue française; par MM. Nodier et Ackermann, Paris, 1868. Complete editions: Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise dedié au Roy (1st edition), Paris, 1694; Nouveau Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise dedié au Roy (2nd edition), Paris, 1718; Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (3rd edition), Paris, 1740
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally written as le morte Darthur; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") [1] is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore.
A Happy Death (original title La mort heureuse) is a novel by absurdist French writer-philosopher Albert Camus.The absurdist topic of the book is the "will to happiness", the conscious creation of one's happiness, and the need of time (and money) to do so.