Sentence examples for a french form from inspiring English sources
A French form that died out in the 19th century is the miniature épinette des Vosges.
The word troubadour is a French form derived ultimately from the Occitanian trobar, "to find," "to invent".
Greek writers, especially Archilochus, used iambics as a vehicle for satire, but the name came into use as a French form in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when André Chénier's Ïambes and Auguste Barbier's Les Ïambes were published.
In the 1924 games in Paris, the French perhaps had some post-WWI frustration to let out, as included in the demonstration program were la canne, a French form of martial arts using a cane, as well as savate, a form of French kickboxing.
It's one hell of a lovely 1800s English rhyme based on a French form loved by W. H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop.
In this way the riots of 2005 were domesticated and made part of a traditionally French form of protest.
The only disincentive is the 30-euro fee for an annual membership (required by law this year since there are games of chance including poker and a bizarre French form of roulette called multicolore in the back).
That's exactly what Charles de Gaulle did with his "indictative planning" — a very French form of centralized free-market economics, where the central government set goals and the entrepreneurial economy was set loose to pursue them.
The Hambach rhetoric emphasized the overall peaceable nature of German nationalism: the point was not to build barricades, a very "French" form of nationalism, but to build emotional bridges between groups.
The name Romance indeed suggests the ultimate connection of these languages with Rome: the English word is derived from an Old French form of Latin Romanicus, used in the Middle Ages to designate a vernacular type of Latin speech (as distinct from the more learned form used by clerics) as well as literature written in the vernacular.
The internationalism that he preaches is an especially French form of it, one that assumes the assertion of sovereignty and identity alongside a global reach, achieved less by ideological clarity than by a constant delicate nudging and balancing of its more obstreperous German and American allies.
