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French honorifics are based on the wide use of Madame for women and Monsieur for men. ... calling a young woman "Mademoiselle" is usually considered more polite, and ...
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (French: [sidɔ'ni ɡabʁi'jɛl kɔ'lɛt]; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist.
Young African Woman (French - La Jeune Africaine ) is a late 19th century oil on canvas painting by Fernand Cormon, produced during his stay in Tunisia and now in the musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau.
'Portrait of the Young Lady on Fire') is a 2019 French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma, starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel. Set in France in the late 18th century, the film tells the story of a brief affair between two young women: an aristocrat and a painter commissioned to paint her portrait. It ...
It derives from gris (French for grey) and refers to the cheap grey fabric of the dresses these women originally wore. The 1694 edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française described a grisette as simply "a woman of lowly condition". By the 1835 edition of the dictionary, her status had risen somewhat.
The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi [fij dy ʁwa], or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) were the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV. The program was designed to boost New France's population both by encouraging Frenchmen to move ...
French women and their enviable style have long been a source of fascination for anyone interested in fashion. They always seem to have an air of...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...