Meanings of folie in English

She's become quite the firebrand whilst acting as her husband's partner in a folie-a-deux.

He says: 'I have had under my care altogether about 40 cases of typical folie circulaire.'

Noailles says, "Qu'il a fait une folie, mais qu'il est pr'et 'a la r'eparer."

This psychasthenic state, the folie du doute of the French, is accompanied by fear, restlessness and an oppressive feeling of unreality.

The honeymoon was over before That Wedding, but the Gallic spectacle of this Celtic folie de grandeur was too much for the common cumainn.

Le Grande du Saulle has given to the disease in which there is a morbid doubt about everything done, the name folie de doute.

You want to do it all yourself-tofill the eye of the girl alone, and be tucked away to By-byfor your pains-mais ,quellefolie!

Like many other men of genius he suffered all his life from folie de doute, indeed his was what specialists call "a beautiful case."

Of this inner wisdom, this quietness of thought, this "folie des grandeurs" of the soul, he had a thousand times as much as Macaulay.

Fortunately, no one man aboard the ship can launch a strike; the cooperation of 6 men is required, in a sort of "folie a six."

In about twenty minutes, the carriage stopped not far from the Folies-Bergères.

Through the house there was a hush, unusual at the Folies Bergères.

Folies Bergeres sounds French, and she was making sort of French noises.

It was, therefore, to the Hotel des Folies that he was going.

It was at Petite-Saens that I first saw the Divisional Folies.

On the advice of a friend, he went to the Folies-Bergere.