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The Indiscreet Jewels (or The Indiscreet Toys, or The Talking Jewels; French: Les Bijoux indiscrets) is the first novel by Denis Diderot, published anonymously in 1748.It is an allegory that portrays Louis XV of France as Mangogul, Sultan of Congo, who owns a magic ring that makes women's vaginas ("jewels") talk.
In French it is sometimes called a souvenir, but this is a false friend, souvenir being the infinitive for the verb "to remember". Bijouterie , the art of making or wearing bijoux, has thus developed its own private language or rebus known only to the initiated.
[38] [39] In French, a title of respect for an older or married woman (literally "my lady"); sometimes spelled "madam" in English (but never in French). mademoiselle lit. "my noble young lady": young unmarried lady, miss. malaise a general sense of depression or unease. Can also be used to denote complacency, or lethargy towards something ...
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Translation Peter H. Lee: Pine River and Lone Peak (English translation) 1994 Poetry Lee Hyeonggi: Undying City: Fiction Yi Cheong-jun: White Clothes: Drama — — Criticism Kim Uchang: A Jewel of a Poet: Translation Choe Yun & Patrick Maurus: La Place by Choi In-hoon (French translation) 1995 Poetry Hwang Donggyu: Strong Wind at Misiryong ...
Beau Geste is an adventure novel by British writer P. C. Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative. Published in 1924, the novel is set in the period before World War I.
I gioielli della Madonna (English: The Jewels of the Madonna) is a opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to an Italian libretto by Carlo Zangarini and Enrico Golisciani, based on news accounts of a real event.
A French career criminal has written a book about his role in the armed robbery of Kim Kardashian during Paris Fashion Week in 2016, during which he and four accomplices made off with an estimated ...