Word: gallicisms
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...Bourboule for centuries. The heady brew burbling up from radioactive springs around the French spa is spiced with arsenic and bicarbonate of soda and, so the Bourbouliens say, is good for anemia, rheumatism, diabetes, postprandial bloat, intermittent fevers and a host of other ailments. Sooner or later, shrewd Gallic hôteliers were sure to figure that what is good for man is also good for beasts. One fellow with the soul of a pressagent finally hit on the thought that a swig or two from La Bourboule's springs might change a candidate for the horse butchers into...
Died. Maurice-Edmond Sailland, 83, bald, rotund (220 Ibs.) Gallic gourmet better known by his self-styled title Prince Curnonsky, founder (1928) of France's famed Académie des Gastronomes and head of 27 gastronomical societies, prolific culinary writer (France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes); after accidentally falling from a window of his fourth-floor apartment; in Paris...
...Fernandel's honorable lad comes home from Algeria on leave and marries the girl, setting the villagers off on a grand, hatchet-burying celebration. Unfortunately and predictably, the era of goodwill is likely to last only until the next movie in the cycle sends them, with shrill Gallic cries, at each other's throats again...
Jacques Tati is a tall, gangling Frenchman who moves like a badly-controlled marionette and possesses a real talent for taking pitfalls with the least possible grace. A veteran of the music halls, Tati practices a kind of humor which is not at all subtle, Gallic, or witty, but still enormously funny...
Maloret into a closet, knocks out his son and pushes him under the bed, and takes Madame Maloret. Gallic irony: the lady is delighted...