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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    Though grammatically correct, it is not used in French. objet trouvé an ordinary object, such as a piece of driftwood, a shell, or a manufactured article, that is treated as an objet d'art because it is aesthetically pleasing. [63] In French, les objets trouvés, short for le bureau des objets trouvés, means the lost-and-found, the lost property.

  3. Furniture - Wikipedia

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    Thus fourniture in French means supplies or provisions. [4] The English usage, referring specifically to household objects, is specific to that language; [5] French and other Romance languages as well as German use variants of the word meubles, which derives from Latin mobilia, meaning "moveable goods". [6]

  4. Impersonal verb - Wikipedia

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    While the concept of impersonal verbs is closely related to phenomenon of null subjects, null objects have to do with the lack of the obligatory projection of an object position. [23] In French. C'est pas lui qui l'a écrit, son livre, le pape, c'est quelqu'un qui lui écrit __. The Pope didn't write his book himself, someone writes __ for him ...

  5. List of furniture types - Wikipedia

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    8.1 Definition 1: Objects usually kept in a house or other building to make it suitable or comfortable for living or working in 8.2 Definition 2: Accessories or fittings that are required for a particular function, situation, or setting

  6. Architecture of Paris - Wikipedia

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    The two houses at 13–15 rue François Miron (actually built in the 16th or 17th century, but often described as medieval houses) are good examples of the Renaissance house. [9] Once the French court returned to Paris from the Loire Valley, the nobility and wealthy merchants began to build hôtels particuliers, or large private residences ...

  7. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    What the French call complément d'objet indirect is a complement introduced by an essentially void à or de (at least in the case of a noun) required by some particular, otherwise intransitive, verbs: e.g. Les cambrioleurs ont profité de mon absence 'the robbers took advantage of my absence' — but the essentially synonymous les cambrioleurs ...

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    Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!

  9. Found object - Wikipedia

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    Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917; photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. A found object (a calque from the French objet trouvé), or found art, [1] [2] [3] is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function. [4]