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La plume de ma tante. (phrase) La plume de ma tante ("my aunt's quill") is a phrase in popular culture, attributed to elementary French language instruction (possibly as early as the 19th century [1]) and used as an example of grammatically correct phrases with limited practical application that are sometimes taught in introductory foreign ...
A half-aunt is a half-sister of a parent. A maternal aunt is the sister of one's mother. A paternal aunt is the sister of one's father. An aunt-in-law is the aunt of one's spouse. A parent's first cousin may be called a second aunt. A great-aunt [2] [3] or grandaunt [4] (sometimes written grand-aunt [5]) is the sister of one's grandparent.
Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames: The D'Antin Manuscript (Mother Goose Rhymes), published in 1967 by Luis d'Antin van Rooten, is purportedly a collection of poems written in archaic French with learned glosses. In fact, they are English-language nursery rhymes written homophonically as a nonsensical French text (with pseudo-scholarly explanatory ...
The Law as published in the Journal Officiel de la République Française. The Toubon Law (full name: law 94-665 of 4 August 1994 relating to usage of the French language) is a French law mandating the use of the French language in official government publications, in all advertisements, in all workplaces, in commercial contracts, in some other commercial communication contexts, in all ...
Honoré de Balzac (/ ˈ b æ l z æ k / BAL-zak, [2] more commonly US: / ˈ b ɔː l-/ BAWL-; [3] [4] [5] French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; [1] 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally ...
Mother's Day in the Netherlands in 1925 Northern Pacific Railway postcard for Mother's Day 1916. Mother's Day gift in 2007 Mother and daughter and Mother's Day card. In most countries, Mother's Day is an observance derived from the holiday as it has evolved in the United States, promoted by companies who saw benefit in making it popular. [9]
The Constitution of the Year XII (French: Constitution de l’an XII), also called the Organic Sénatus-consulte of 28 Floréal, year XII (Sénatus-consulte organique du 28 floréal an XII), was a national constitution of the First French Republic adopted during the Year XII of the French Revolutionary Calendar (1804 in the Gregorian calendar).
lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.