Word: gallicisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the moment a French baby opens his little Gallic eyes, his ruling purpose in life becomes preparing for the bachot, the grueling baccalaureate exam that decides who shall enter universities and the grandes ecoles, and thus automatically become the elite that will some day rule the nation. The exam was over last week, and in Paris and Marseille milling, delirious teenage students overturned cars, pelted passers-by with flour, bombarded police with eggs, set bonfires on the sidewalks. They were celebrating the end of the pretest tension-and a lot of them were celebrating the fact that this year...
Paris skies may still be grey, but there is sunlight in its stones. As if ready to abandon his Gallic faith in wine, one slightly awed clochard said, "And to think that water can do all this...
...measure of the new President. Most papers have kept a slightly mystified and slightly hostile silence, as if they did not understand the newcomer and hardly cared. "A homogeneous mixture of merits and cunning," cabled the Washington correspondent of Le Monde in a recent attempt to translate Johnson into Gallic terms. In L'Express, Editorial Cartoonist Tim was even blunter...
...strips, its only lifeline to the outside, were within easy field-gun range of the mountains. Under Cavalry Colonel Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix de Castries, who was promoted to four-star general during the battle, the garrison had been organized into ten separate commands. With Gallic gallantry, each had been given a woman's name-Gabrielle, Béatrice, Anne-Marie, Françoise, Isabelle, Dominique, Claudine, Huguette, Eliane and Junon...
...Gaulle's lordly hold on the French voter. Defferre hopefully points to Britain's postwar rejection of glory-minded Winston Churchill for the prosaic, practical Clement Attlee. The French, too, he feels, may be tired of glory, and he is quite content to picture himself as a Gallic Attlee...