The phrase "a french copy" is correct and usable in written English, although it should be capitalized as "a French copy." You can use it when referring to a reproduction or version of a document, book, or item that is in the French language.
Example: "I found a French copy of the novel that I had been searching for."
Alternatives: "a French version" or "a French edition."
But the little colonel doesn't like homes: he prefers a theory he discovers in a French copy of National Geographic, in an article about the tribal use of masks in northeastern Africa.
There are some rarities here: a 1667 first edition of "Paradise Lost"; two copies of a 1688 edition, illuminated with stark extravagance; Alexander Pope's copy of Milton's early poetry; one of four extant copies of William Blake's "Milton"; 19th-century illustrations for a French copy of the poem; even a first edition of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" with its epigram from "Paradise Lost".
This plan was later amended to add a degaussing cable, replacement of the SS-6 sonar by a French copy of the British ASDIC and six of the new mitrailleuse de 25 mm contre-aéroplanes Modèle 1940 anti-aircraft guns, plus two more 13.2 mm Brownings mounted on the forward corners of the center deck house.
Later in the year the SS 6 sonar was scheduled to be replaced by a French copy of the British ASDIC, but it was still sitting on the dockside when Volta was scuttled in Toulon Harbour when the Germans tried to seize the fleet on 27 November 1942 to prevent it from defecting to the Allies.
The red leather binding of my French copy, now forty years old, is held together with gaffer's tape.
In 1971, when the Le Monde English edition folded, the Weekly took on its 12,000-strong subscription list and incorporated four pages of French copy.
Did the English and French copy us?
The French copied the word from the Genoese during the Seventh Crusade (1248 54).
[Updated at 1 20 p.m. PST March 31: The buyer of Fleur de Lys was initially identified as a French billionaire, but a copy of the grant deed obtained by The Times shows the taxes will be mailed to Milken Institute in Santa Monica.
'New Circus', purportedly a French invention, is being copied all over the world, even in Vietnam, which has responded with Láng Tôi (My Village), a show that has toured widely since 2009 and is currently touring France and further afield, only returning home in December.
