Term Gallery logo

Meanings of french prose in English

We have no meanings for "french prose" in our records yet.
Usage of french prose in English
1
Translation of Provençal prose into French prose is practically mere word substitution.
Frédéric Mistral / Poet and Leader in Provence
2
It was first turned into French prose, and afterwards by Resnel into verse.
Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
3
L'Heptaméron is the earliest French prose that can be read without a glossary.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
4
I have a hundred lines of French prose to translate.
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
5
This may have been bad for French poetry, but it was good for French prose.
Halleck's New English Literature
6
I'd go with you but I have a frightfully long translation in French prose for to-morrow.
Jane Allen, Right Guard
7
There are masters of French prose whose art has begun where the art of Mérimée leaves off.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
8
The French prose versions are very good.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
9
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was, by general agreement, one of the great French prose writers of the early 20th century.
Reuters
10
If your French prose is full of howlers, you are told that slackers aren't wanted in the trenches.
The Loom of Youth
11
Even the last editor of Jasmin's poems-Boyerd'Agen-does not translate them into French poetry, but into French prose.
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
12
French prose, even in the hands of the most ordinary writers, is always readable, but English prose is detestable.
Miscellanies
13
French prose romances on Arthur, from, say, 1180 to 1250.
Alfred Tennyson
14
Several years ago, another foolish publisher ruined himself by a translation into French prose of the splendid poetry of Ariosto.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
15
I recall my father recommending Poincaré's essays, not just for their scientific content, but for the quality of his French prose.
The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
16
One might even be inclined to say that his French prose is controlled by a purer taste than his English prose.
Gibbon
This collocation consists of:
French prose through the time
French prose across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common