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  2. French honorifics - Wikipedia

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    "Docteur" (Dr) is used for medical practitioners whereas "Professeur" is used for professors and teachers.The holders of a doctorate other than medical are generally not referred to as Docteurs, though they have the legal right to use the title; Professors in academia used the style Monsieur le Professeur rather than the honorific plain Professeur.

  3. French name - Wikipedia

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    When speaking of someone, monsieur/madame given name family name, by far the most polite form of address, is generally reserved for the most solemn occasions. Monsieur/madame family name or given name family name is polite and used in normal formal occasions, as well as in the formal quality press (Le Monde, Le Monde diplomatique, for example ...

  4. Monsieur - Wikipedia

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    Monsieur (/ m ə ˈ s j ɜːr / mə-SYUR; French: ⓘ; pl. Messieurs / ˈ m ɛ s ər z, m eɪ ˈ s j ɜːr (z)/ MESS-ərz, may-SYUR(Z); French: ⓘ; 1512, from Middle French mon sieur, literally "my lord" [1]) is an honorific title that was used to refer to or address the eldest living brother of the king in the French royal court.

  5. List of terms referring to an average person - Wikipedia

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    Usable as a common word: Pierre-Paul-Jacques (with the meaning of "Someone"); [17] Random people (similar to Average John/Jane): Monsieur/Madame Tout-le-monde [citation needed] (Mr/Mrs Everyone), Untel/Unetelle (Mr/Mrs NoName; literally, “a such” and thus similar to the English “so-and-so”), [18] Madame Michu (only female), [19] (M./Mme) Tartempion (familiar and a little satirical); [20]

  6. List of Les Misérables characters - Wikipedia

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    Jean Valjean (also known as Monsieur Madeleine, Ultime Fauchelevent, Monsieur Leblanc, and Urbain Fabre) – The protagonist of the novel. Convicted for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's seven starving children and sent to prison for five years, he is paroled from prison nineteen years later (after four unsuccessful escape attempts ...

  7. Mr. - Wikipedia

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    The female equivalent is Mrs Justice Hallett, not Madam Justice Hallett. When more than one judge is sitting and there is need to be specific, the form of address is My Lord, Mr Justice Crane. High Court Judges are entitled to be styled with the prefix The Honourable while holding office: e.g., the Honourable Mr Justice Robert Goff. In writing ...

  8. Gender-neutral title - Wikipedia

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    The traditional honorifics of Miss, Mrs, Ms and Mr in English all indicate the binary gender of the individual. [3]Frauenknecht et al. at die Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt published a 2021 study in the Journal for EuroLinguistiX which rated 10 current human languages for only 10 job titles regarding "Gender-Inclusive Job Titles", since job titles can in most languages be used ...

  9. Monseigneur - Wikipedia

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    In international intercourse two titles gradually won general recognition, Monsieur as the title of the eldest brother of the King of France (if not heir presumptive) and Monseigneur for the Dauphin, or eldest son of the French king, who was also the crown prince, or for whatever male member of the family was recognized as heir presumptive to ...