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plat du jour lit. "dish of the day"; a dish served in a restaurant on a particular day but separate from the regular menu. plongeur (fem. plongeuse) a male (or female) dishwasher in a professional kitchen. plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (or plus ça change, plus c'est pareil) (often abbreviated to just plus ça change)
Bonheur du jour, now in the Palace of Versailles, attributed to Jean Henri Riesener. A bonheur du jour (in French, bonheur-du-jour, meaning "daytime delight") is a type of lady's writing desk. It was introduced in Paris by one of the interior decorators and purveyors of fashionable novelties called marchands-merciers about 1760, and speedily ...
Belle de Jour (pronounced [bɛl də ʒuʁ]) is a 1967 French surrealist erotic [3] psychological drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, and Michel Piccoli. Based on the 1928 novel Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel , the film is about a young woman who spends her midweek afternoons as a high-class ...
Look up de jure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In law and government, de jure ( / deɪ ˈdʒʊəri, di -, - ˈjʊər -/, Latin: [deː ˈjuːre]; lit. 'by law') describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality. [ 1] In contrast, de facto ('in fact') describes situations that exist in ...
French Republican Calendar of 1794, drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt. The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and ...
Etymology. Table d'hôte is a French loan phrase that literally means "the host's table". The term is used to denote a table set aside for residents of a guesthouse [ fr], who presumably sit at the same table as their host. The meaning shifted to include any meal featuring a set menu at a fixed price. The use in English is documented as early ...
Published in English. 2018. ISBN. 9781590519707. The Order of the Day ( French: L'Ordre du jour) is a novel by the French writer Éric Vuillard. [1] In French it is described as a récit, while The Guardian described it as an historical essay with literary flourishes. [2] The book received the Prix Goncourt.
Joie de vivre ( / ˌʒwɑː də ˈviːv ( rə )/ ZHWAH də VEEV(-rə), French: [ʒwa d (ə) vivʁ] ⓘ; " joy of living ") is a French phrase often used in English to express a cheerful enjoyment of life, an exultation of spirit, and general happiness . It "can be a joy of conversation, joy of eating, joy of anything one might do….