I think I cannot do better than give precedence to the impressions of two French gentlemen who seem to me to have done justice to the subject, then cite the calm judgment of a learned and sagacious Teuton, and lastly quote from the laboured paragraphs of a much-travelled cosmopolite, at one time Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Manila.
A South African family with two small children joined us and then a gang of five drunken French gentlemen in their mid-20s wearing cowboy hats turned up with two black girls wearing thongs and cowboy hats.
One elderly French gentleman, detecting a foreign accent in my response, asks if I am English.
The French gentleman in front of me, thinking I don't understand, repeats what the cashier has said, only more slowly.
This painting, of a French gentleman's wife sitting in her garden, has not been seen since 1937, when it was part of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On May 6, 2003, just hours before Sotheby's auctioned off a Renoir owned by Mrs. Clark, an 1882 portrait of a French gentleman's wife sitting in her garden, Mrs. Friedman sent Mr. Levy a missive.
One student's nomination letter remarked on Nevle's tradition of reading John Muir's writing aloud with a Scottish accent, impersonating the French gentleman who once owned some of the land on which Stanford now sits.
An 1882 Renoir portrait of a French gentleman's wife sitting in her garden, deemed too daring by the husband who commissioned it because of its bright colors, is heading for Las Vegas.
December 11 , 1864Rouen, France November 6 , 1941Paris, France Maurice Leblanc, in full Maurice-Marie-Émile Leblanc (born Dec. 11, 1864, Rouen, France died Nov. 6, 1941, Paris), French author and journalist, known as the creator of Arsène Lupin, French gentleman-thief turned detective, who is featured in more than 60 of Leblanc's crime novels and short stories.
Both of us are lazy by nature, and that makes it convenient to hang on to the fantasies we conjured up back when we met in Milan: mine of the French gentleman-adventurer, and his of a pliant black goddess whose feelings accord with his.
In "Brothers and Sisters Around the World," an African-American woman with a "steely Protestant core," vacationing in Madagascar, fends off the local women's advances on her husband, a "French gentleman-adventurer type" with a thing for "a pliant black goddess".
