Sentence examples for french myth from inspiring English sources

Emeralds, to music by Fauré, exists in an imaginative space evoking the enchanted forests of French myth and peopled by glamorous, tulle-skirted nymphs.

Still, in 1969 the French government prohibited the broadcast of Marcel Ophuls's documentary about the Occupation, "The Sorrow and the Pity," which exploded the French Myth of Resistance.

In one bit of sharp banter that takes aim at holy French myth, one girl explains to a child why Joan of Arc was burned at the stake: "Because she got involved in politics".

The French myth of America is as robust as the American myth of France, and one important element in it is the idea that Americans can arrive intuitively at results that the French can get to only by thinking a lot.

Therese Humbert had simply embroidered her own version of a commonplace French myth, that of the American uncle, "l'oncle d'Amerique" -- the fellow who had gone off to the land where the streets are paved with gold, capable of saving the folks back home from ruin if not elevating them to riches that matched his.

A French myth says that the croque monsieur, otherwise known as a "Crispy Mister," was accidentally discovered when a couple of French workers left their lunch pails full of cheese and ham sandwiches too close to a hot radiator.

Nothing is more tiresome than finding the same old clichés in books and reviews that pretend to demolish French myths about French behavior during "the dark years," 1934-46.

Leonard feels his life is a deportation (as in Pichipoi, a French Jewish myth) with no say in where he is going or what will happen when he gets there.

In French presidential myth-making, a candidate's childhood is key.

She points out that in the view of the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, myth's task is to express opposing visions simultaneously, encompassing the incompatible.

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