The French referred to them as famille-rose.
Indeed, the French refer to l'enfer (the hell) of Matignon, the Paris mansion that is the prime minister's office.
So far, no one has been hurt in the "séquestrations," as the French refer to the hostage-taking.
The French refer to the Le Mans 24 Hour Race as "La semaine Anglais" - The English weekend.
Here, Jewish is an adjective for the Jewish nationality just as "French" refers to the culture of the French people, or "Estonian" to the culture of Estonians.
What exactly is the quenelle?The word in French refers originally to a long oval-shaped fish or meat dumpling from the Lyon region.
WHENEVER I'm going through what the French refer to as intense malaise and Americans just call the blues, I have a pretty simple remedy.
To cook, simply de-scale, fillet, toss in seasoned flour and pan fry with lemon juice: a recipe the French refer to as filet de perche.
If it had, "Jewish" might have signified today a member of a national community — in the manner, say, that "French" refers to a national of France or "Polish" that of Poland.
This lipogrammatic tour de force is particularly poignant because the missing e (pronounced "eux" – "them" – in French) refers to all those (including the author's parents) who went missing during the second world war.
Contrary to some accounts, neither Hitler nor his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, took credit for successfully using what the French refer to as le grand mensonge: the Nazi leaders always claimed they were telling the truth.
