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French and phrase
" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.
The conventional symbol for current is, which originates from the French phrase intensité de courant, or in English current intensity.
This day, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday when Lent begins, is also known as Mardi Gras, a French phrase which translates as " Fat Tuesday " to mark the last consumption of eggs and dairy before Lent begins.
The earliest use of the phrase is a quote from the Westminster Magazine of 1774: " He had no inclination for a Broomstick-marriage ", the person in question simply stating that he did not want to go through a ceremony that had no legal validity, it having been suggested to him that he would pretend to be marrying by having a French sexton read the marriage service to him and his young bride.
* March 1 – Victor Hugo uses the phrase United States of Europe in a speech to the French National Assembly.
In Ancien Régime France, a nom de guerre ( a French phrase meaning " war name ") would be adopted by each new recruit ( or assigned to him by the captain of his company ) as he enlisted in the French army.
In general, Michif noun phrase phonology, lexicon, morphology, and syntax are derived from Métis French, while verb phrase phonology, lexicon, morphology, and syntax are from a southern variety of Plains Cree.
is used, to stand for the equivalent French language phrase presque partout.
Note that the phrase " It is better to burn than to disappear " does not appear in the French original.
Despite the use of French words in the phrase nom de plume, the term did not originate in France.
H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, in The King's English state that the term nom de plume " evolved " in Britain, where people wanting a " literary " phrase, failed to understand the term nom de guerre, which already existed in French.
However, the story may well be apocryphal, as it can only be traced to the 16th century, and, in the time of Edward I, the English aristocracy spoke Norman French, not English ( some versions of the legend include lack of knowledge in both languages as a requirement, and one reported version has the very specific phrase " born on Welsh soil and speaking no other language ").
Supporters of the " Palestinian viewpoint " focus on the phrase in the resolution's preamble emphasizing the " inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war ", and note that the French version called for withdrawal from " des territoires occupés "-" the territories occupied ".
Another catchphrase often used by both characters was " That's your actual French ", although Barry Took acknowledged that Peter Cook had claimed to be the first to use " your actual ...." as a format phrase.
* tenet " it bores, it annoys " ( Classical " it holds ") > anoget, latinization of Proto-French * anoiet ( Old French anoie ), from anui, anoi " annoyance ", from the phrase mihī in odiō est " it is hateful to me " ( French ennui, Italian noia, Occitan anuèg, Catalan enutg, Spanish enojo, Portuguese nojo )
The Académie française prefers that French speakers do not incorporate English words like brunch into their language, and suggests using the phrase le grand petit déjeuner, " big breakfast " ( literally " the big little lunch ").
* In French vernacular speech the phrase " faire le Zouave " can be translated as " to play the goat " i. e. to behave wildly.
While this phrase may be used as one lexical item by English speakers, that is to say, an English speaker would not say only déjà to convey the meaning associated with the full term déjà vu, in the donor language ( French ), speakers would be aware of the phrase consisting of two words.
In general, Gaultier was a masterful melodist, effortlessly writing graceful melodic lines with clear phrase structures, but his music is less inventive harmonically than that of some other French lutenists of the era, such as René Mesangeau or Pierre Dubut.
In practice, because Jelic's work had gone through three editions, Foote was able to demonstrate how the first edition ( in French ) had adopted the concept from the work of earlier researchers, listed by Jelic, then the later editions had adapted the anachronistic French scholarly phrase " évèque régionnaire des contrées américaines " into Latin.

French and laissez
Hayek also rejected the label " laissez faire " as originating from the French tradition and alien to the beliefs of Hume, Smith and Burke.
The laissez faire slogan was popularized by Vincent de Gournay, a French intendant of commerce in the 1750s.
The Jacobin Club developed into a bureau for French Republicanism and revolutionary purity, and abandoned its original laissez faire economic views in favor of interventionism.
He was introduced to the laissez faire thought of the French Liberal and Austrian schools of economics when he received Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson as a gift from a family friend on his twelfth birthday.
French verse: Vous n ' êtes jamais seuls / Vous savez ce qu ' il faut faire / Ne laissez pas tomber votre nation / La disco a besoin de vous!

French and faire
The word derives from the French word linge, " washables "— as in faire le linge, " do the laundry "— and ultimately from lin for washable linen, the fabric from which European undergarments were made before the general introduction of cotton from Egypt and then from India.
* Fait accompli (" accomplished deed ", from the verb " faire ", to do ), a term of French origin denoting an irreversible deed, a done deal.
In 1559 du Bellay published at Poitiers La Nouvelle Manière de faire son profit des lettres, a satirical epistle translated from the Latin of Adrien Turnèbe, and with it Le Poète courtisan, which introduced the formal satire into French poetry.
When the eager mercantilist minister asked how the French state could be of service to the merchants and help promote their commerce, Le Gendre replied simply " Laissez-nous faire " (" Leave us be ", lit.
On July 30 he sent a report to the French foreign office of the murder: si, en un mot, le Representant de S. M. Imperiale ne manquerait pas a ses devoirs en ne profitant pas de l ' occasion qui lui est offerte, pour reparer d ' un seul coup, les erreurs ou les fautes du passe, et pour faire sortir du martyre d ' un missionnaire le complet affranchissement du Christianisme
Scène à faire ( French for " scene to be made " or " scene that must be done "; plural: scènes à faire ) is a scene in a book or film which is almost obligatory for a genre of its type.
This circumstance accounts for the current French expressions, être en grève ( to be on strike ) and faire ( la ) grève ( to go on strike ).
It was released as Band of Outsiders in North America ; its French title derives from the phrase faire bande à part, which means " to do something apart from the group.
In 1969 a single special dive training vehicle was adapted, nicknamed the AMX 30 Gloutte ( from French faire glouglou, " gurgle "), without engine and tracks, that over a ramp could quickly be lowered into a reservoir by a winch ; it was equipped with an escape tube.
Its title derives from the French phrase faire la nouba, meaning " to party " or " to live it up ".
The next years, she recorded some of her main hits: Pour faire une chanson ( to make a song ), Qu ' il est bête ( he's so dumb ), Allo allo monsieur l ' ordinateur ( hello hello mister computer ), Vive les vacances ( long live holidays ), Maman ( mommy )… and she also got an award for the French theme of the film Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure.
The term " couvade " is borrowed from French ( where it is derived from the verb couver " to brood, hatch "); the use in the modern sense derives from a misunderstanding of an earlier idiom faire la couvade, which meant " to sit doing nothing.
However in the opinion of French admiral Kerguelen, " S ' ils avaient bien manouevré, ils auraient pu, ou prendre tous nos vaisseaux, ou les faire périr à la côte " ( If English had maneuvered successfully they could have taken all of our vessels, or made them perish on the coast ).
( lack of English modal verb ; modal vouloir from French instead – Voulez-vous faire la vaisselle?

French and gained
He sensed something precious in the perilous moment, something akin to the knowledge gained on his bicycle trip through the French countryside, a knowledge imprisoned in speechlessness.
Despite the lack of formal secondary and tertiary level education, Nobel gained proficiency in six languages: Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian.
The Anglo-Dutch forces gained minor compensation for the failed Moselle campaign with the success at Elixheim and the crossing of the Lines of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands ( Huy was also retaken on 11 July ), but a chance to bring the French to a decisive engagement had eluded Marlborough.
Its title track, though only reaching number 24 in the UK singles chart, gained lasting popularity, and within months had been released in both German and French.
Eugene enhanced his standing during the War of the Spanish Succession where his partnership with the Duke of Marlborough secured victories against the French on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ); he gained further success in the war as Imperial commander in northern Italy, most notably at the Battle of Turin ( 1706 ).
After the collapse of the First Empire in 1815, the French public lost the rights and privileges earned since the Revolution, but they remembered the participatory politics that characterized the period, with one historian commenting: " Thousands of men and even many women gained firsthand experience in the political arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways ; they voted ; they joined new organizations ; and they marched for their political goals.
Bogart gained his first real romantic lead in 1942's Casablanca, playing Rick Blaine, the hard-pressed expatriate nightclub owner, hiding from the past and negotiating a fine line among Nazis, the French underground, the Vichy prefect and unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend.
Lewis has long remained popular in Europe: he was consistently praised by some French critics in the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma for his absurd comedy, in part because he had gained respect as an auteur who had total control over all aspects of his films, comparable to Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.
The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.
The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20, 000 pieces.
Following the Seven Years War and French defeat by Great Britain, Spain gained control of the territory west of the Mississippi River.
Napoleon Bonaparte had gained Louisiana for French ownership from Spain in 1800 under the Treaty of San Ildefonso, after being a Spanish colony since 1762.
Laos gained full independence following the French defeat by the Vietnamese communists and the subsequent Geneva peace conference in 1954.
The monarchy collapsed in 1896 when the island was conquered and absorbed into the French colonial empire, from which the island gained independence in 1960.
With the war against Spain ( 1859 – 1860 ) came direct involvement in European affairs — although the independence of Morocco was guaranteed in the Conference of Madrid ( 1880 ), the French gained ever greater influence.
Throughout the 18th century the Royal Navy gradually gained ascendancy over the French Navy, with victories in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), inconclusive battles in the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), victories in the Seven Years ' War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a partial reversal during the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), and consolidation into uncontested supremacy during the 19th century from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
As a cardinal, Ghislieri gained a reputation for putting orthodoxy before personalities, prosecuting eight French bishops for heresy.
Within the Holy Roman Empire these territories gained a wide range of independence, threatened, however, by the French kings, who sought, from the 17th century onwards, to incorporate all the territories on the western side of the river Rhine and repeatedly invaded the area in 1635, in 1676, in 1679 and in 1734, extending their realm to the Saar River and establishing the city and stronghold of Saarlouis in 1680.
The overwhelming French troops attacked the English settlements and gained control of the whole island from 1665 – 1667.
By that time, the Samoans had gained a reputation of being savage and warlike, as violent altercations had occurred between natives and French, British, German and American forces, who, by the late nineteenth century, valued Samoa as a refueling station for coal-fired shipping and whaling.
The Free French declared the conditional ' independence ' of Syria again in 1941, but it wasn't until the Syrian Chamber of Deputies unilaterally voted on 30 November 1943 to remove article 116 of the constitution, which gave the French power of veto over any bill, that Syria gained any real measure of independence.
Example: word-initial + stop clusters in Latin gained a preceding in Old Spanish and Old French ; hence, the Spanish word for " state " is estado, deriving from Latin status.
First published in Polish in 1931, the following year it was also translated into French and gained wider recognition in European academic circles.
By then he had gained fluency in French, Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, Japanese and English, in addition to his native Vietnamese.

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