The phrase "a seigneur" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing feudal systems, nobility, or historical references to lords or landowners in France.
Example: "In the medieval period, a seigneur had significant power over the peasants living on his land."
Alternatives: "a lord" or "a nobleman".
With a grant of land at the western end of Île de Montréal, La Salle acquired at one stroke the status of a seigneur (i.e., landholder) and the opportunities of a frontiersman.
There's a pattern here: Trump, who thinks of himself as a Seigneur surrounded by admiring and grateful servitors who call him "Mr. Trump" (at least until the moment when he tells them, "You're fired!"), suddenly finds the social order reversed.
A master of metaphor, a seigneur of similes (for Jupp leaving the old school MySpace site would be like "Julian Assange popping out of the Ecuadorian Embassy to the local shop to buy memory sticks"), Jupp's return to the 'eloquent bumbling' he honed in his earlier Edinburgh Fringe shows is a welcome one.
'What does it mean to be a seigneur now?' says Peter de Sausmarez, the seigneur of Guernsey's charming Sausmarez Manor.
There is, for instance, a seigneur (or lord) on Jersey whose duty it has been to present visiting British monarchs with two dead mallards.
So many producers took a writing credit as a droit du seigneur for a few consultations or suggestions that the Screen Writers Guild later instituted a rule calling for compulsory arbitration whenever a producer sought a credit.
The moustachioed, pipe-smoking author, who usually appears in public dressed in baggy cord trousers and tweeds, has evolved into both a grand seigneur of the German literary scene and an outspoken champion of human rights.
But entitlements and duties that would have once been held by a medieval seigneur are often included.
Bertrand Russell was dazzled by him; T.S. Eliot called him a "Grand Seigneur, the grandest I have ever met".
The massive new volume "Beaton: Photographs," out next week from Abrams, presents an expansive chronological survey of Cecil Beaton's career, with images spanning more than half a century, from the nineteen-twenties, when Beaton was first experimenting with portraiture using his sisters as models, through the late seventies, by which time he was a grand seigneur of the form.
(They had to pay a 13th of the price, known as a treizième, to the seigneur, a practice they found irksome; the custom has since been abolished).
