Meanings of francaise in English

A long-skirted coat, a la francaise, covered loosely his thin, bowed back.

M. Viviani's book La Mission francaise en Amerique, 1917, contains a preface by Bergson.

France.--Theold Academie des sciences had the same origin as the more celebrated Academie francaise.

Ils ont fait un chef-d'oeuvre-lalangue francaise.''

In 1914 he was honoured by his fellow-countrymen in being elected as a member of the Academie francaise.

After six months of elaboration, it was published under the title, Sentiments de l'academie francaise sur le Cid.

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It is impossible for me to convey in words the charm of that delightful gaiete francaise, especially amongst southern Frenchmen.

Have the cicadas a double dose of gaiete francaise in their composition, and is this their manner of expressing it?

See Cestre, La Revolution francaise et les poetes anglais (1789-1809), pp.

The class of the Institute which deals with the language and literature takes precedence, and is known as the Academie francaise.

Alexandre le grand dans la litterature francaise au moyen age (2 vols., Paris, 1886).

Downstairs, and a short way along the street, Isaiah dropped the slice of tarte francaise he'd just bought and ran to the door.

It was sheer "joie de-vivre" stimulated by the good food and that spontaneous gaiete francaise which appeals so irresistibly to me.

That criticism he had launched himself with great vigour in 1901 at a Meeting of the Societe francaise de philosophie,[Footnote: See Bibliography, p.

The French side will be found in the Histoire de la marine francaise pendant la Guerre de l'Independence americaine (Paris, 1877), by Captain Chevalier.