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  2. Cause célèbre - Wikipedia

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    In French, one of the meanings of cause is a legal case, and célèbre means "famous". The phrase originated with the 37-volume Nouvelles Causes Célèbres, published in 1763, which was a collection of reports of well-known French court decisions from the 17th and 18th centuries.

  3. Cause (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Cause, such as a social cause, a pursuit, belief, or purpose of one or more people, that they advocate for, or donate or share resources to support or advance, e.g.,: a(n) Belief in something; Ethical ideal (principles or value) Causes (company), an online company; Cause (medicine) Cause (river), in Bouches-du-Rhône, southern France

  4. Causative - Wikipedia

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    The normal English causative verb [3] or control verb used in periphrasis is make rather than cause. Linguistic terms are traditionally given names with a Romance root, which has led some to believe that cause is more prototypical. While cause is a causative, it carries some additional meaning (it implies direct causation) and is less common ...

  5. Causes - Wikipedia

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  6. Glossary of French words and expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Category:French dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "French dictionaries" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  8. French Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The countries in which the French Wikipedia is the most popular language version of Wikipedia are shown in dark blue. Page views by country over time on the French Wikipedia. The audience measurement company Médiamétrie questioned a sample of 8,500 users residing in France with access to Internet at home or at their place of work.

  9. Causa sui - Wikipedia

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    Causa sui (pronounced [ˈkau̯.sa ˈsʊ.iː]; transl. cause of itself, self-caused) is a Latin term that denotes something that is generated within itself. Used in relation to the purpose that objects can assign to themselves, the concept was central to the works of Baruch Spinoza, Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ernest Becker.