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French. In French, œ is called e dans l'o [ə dɑ̃ lo], which means e in the o (a mnemotechnic pun used first at school, sounding like (des) œufs dans l'eau, meaning eggs in water) or sometimes o et e collés, (literally o and e glued) and is a true linguistic ligature, not just a typographic one (like the fi or fl ligatures), reflecting ...
French prime minister Gabriel Attal, also of Renaissance, called the Front "an agreement of shame". Macron called the Front's programme "four times worse" than the National Rally's, saying that there would be "no more laïcité, they will go back on the immigration law, and there are things that are completely grotesque like changing your ...
Iel. (pronoun) Iel is a neo-pronoun in the French language intended as an alternative to the gender-specific pronouns elle ("she") and il ("he"). [1] [2] [3] It has been adopted by the Le Robert dictionary but is not officially accepted by the Académie Française. [4]
help. " La Marseillaise " [a] is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled " Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin " [b] ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine "). The French National Convention ...
Quebec French profanity. Mailbox sign using French-Canadian profanity. The English (approximate) translation is "No fucking admail ". Tabarnak is the strongest form of that sacre, derived from tabernacle (where the Eucharist is stored, in Roman Catholicism ). Quebec French profanities, [1] known as sacres (singular: sacre; French: sacrer, "to ...
Departments of France. In the administrative divisions of France, the department ( French: département, pronounced [depaʁtəmɑ̃] ⓘ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities "), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety-six departments are in metropolitan France, with ...
The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel. The Danse Macabre ( / dɑːns məˈkɑːb ( rə )/; French pronunciation: [dɑ̃s ma.kabʁ] ), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. The Danse Macabre consists of the ...
A French version of the saying, " Le bon Dieu est dans le détail" (literally "the good God is in the detail") is generally attributed to Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880). [1] The expression "the devil is in the details" is found in a 1963 history of post-war European integration. [4] It is later attested in 1965. [5]