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t. e. " Après moi, le déluge " ( pronounced [apʁɛ mwa lə delyʒ]; lit. 'After me, the flood') is a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France, or in the form " Après nous, le déluge " ( pronounced [apʁɛ nu lə delyʒ]; lit. 'After us, the flood') to Madame de Pompadour, his favourite. [1]
The Decameron (/ d ɪ ˈ k æ m ər ə n /; Italian: Decameron [deˈkaːmeron, dekameˈrɔn,-ˈron] or Decamerone [dekameˈroːne]), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto [ˈprentʃipe ɡaleˈɔtto, ˈprɛn-]) and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's Comedy "Divine"), is a collection of short stories by ...
Preterite. The preterite or preterit ( / ˈprɛtərɪt / PRET-ər-it; abbreviated PRET or PRT) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past; in some languages, such as Spanish, French, and English, it is equivalent to the simple past tense. In general, it combines the perfective ...
Jacob Peter Gowy's The Fall of Icarus (1635–1637). In Greek mythology, Icarus (/ ˈ ɪ k ə r ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἴκαρος, romanized: Íkaros, pronounced) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete.
Let them eat cake. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (left) who coined the phrase " qu'ils mangent de la brioche " in 1765. In the years following the French Revolution, the quotation became attributed to Marie Antoinette (right), although there is no evidence that she said it. " Let them eat cake " is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu ...
“Rapports de prêt et domination économique. La fondation de la Banque Nationale de Grèce 1841-1847”, Conference Proceedings 1986, vol. II, P. 451–476 in Economies méditerranéennes: équilibres et intercommunications. Several publications of this article followed in various editions.
Bonaparte Visits the Plague Stricken in Jaffa ( French: Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa) is an oil-on-canvas painting commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte and painted in 1804 by Antoine-Jean Gros, portraying an event during the French invasion of Egypt. [1] The scene shows Napoleon during a striking scene which is supposed to have ...
L'esprit de l'escalier. L'esprit de l'escalier or l'esprit d'escalier ( UK: / lɛˌspriː d ( ə l) ɛˈskæljeɪ /, US: / lɛˌspriː d ( ə ˌl) ɛskəˈljeɪ /, [1] French: [lɛspʁi d (ə l)ɛskalje]; lit. 'staircase wit') is a French term used in English for the predicament of thinking of the perfect reply too late.