Sentence examples for french folklore from inspiring English sources

In French folklore, the werewolf is called loup-garou.

His writings include the monumental Manuel de folklore français contemporain (1937 58; "Manual of Contemporary French Folklore").

The fearsome aggressor quickly took on mythic status, and the beast of the Gévaudan passed into French folklore.

Working as a factory hand, Ansky studied French folklore and socialist doctrine and became secretary to the revolutionary émigré Pyotr Lavrov.

Christophe's gentle mockery of such types as the naïve bourgeois and the absent-minded professor is now a staple of French folklore.

Bruin, also called Brun, a character in French folklore and in the Roman de Renart, a medieval collection of beast tales that satirized human society by bestowing human characteristics upon animals.

Out of context, a blouse with frothy sleeves or a fitted jacket looks like French chic rather than folklore.

He specialized in medieval French literature and history, Italian folklore, and to a lesser extent, in 18th and 19th century French literature.

Hougoumont Farm looks much as it did in 1815, thanks to a seven-year restoration programme; here British and Hanoverian troops held their nerve against a much larger French force, and passed into military folklore.

It offers full details on the history and mythology of more than one hundred and fifty sites in Wales, drawing on sources from the ninth to the nineteenth century; Latin, French, English, and Welsh; and even tourist literature and folklore.

For the price of your entry ticket, stroll a few steps down to the simpler Església de Sant Feliu (17) where the marbled Capell Sant Narcis honours the city's patron saint, who according to folklore set a swarm of flies on invading French soldiers during the siege of 1285.