English Pharisees and French Crocodiles

hey do not return. This is perhaps a happy thing, for when borrowed

nglish had borrowed of us étiqueter, jacquet (petit Jacques), bougette (the king's privy purse), fa?on. Better they had kept them. Up to the nineteenth century, it was by reason of war and conquest that both conquerors and con

we used t

ys nous lunchons. Nous lunchons! Wh

breakfast," it is wrongly used in speaking of a second repast. Déjeuner is,

, we are avenged. I read

London.... The royal party and a large company of invited guests were after

the English will déjeuner

"five o'clocks"; and the bourgeois is beginnin

clockera à

tist, they shout: Encore! And, the following day, the papers, in their acc

English; it will prove to you that Alexander Dumas was right, when he pronoun

ellent. Miss N-- was encored, but Mr. D--, who m

ole. In your rear you will find the National Gallery. As all these buildings are within a hundred yards of Charing Cross station, the terminus at which you alight on coming from France, your first impression will be that it will not take you long to learn to speak English. Ah! dear compatriots, be

lishman, but, never, never wilt thou speak English like an Englishman. Thou wilt

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ge, to hinder any words of a foreign coin from passing among us; and, in particular, to prohibit any French phrases from becoming current in this kingdom, when those of our stamp are altogether as valuable. The pr

op thy ears, an

one of his writings, a piece of prose from an aristocratic pen,

ée sur tout, and pensively engaged in solitary conjugation of the verb s'ennuyer, and though he had never been one of my habitués, or by

brid style at its due value, M. Cocheris proceeds to translate the piece int

th everything, tristement occupé à conjuguer le verbe to be weary, et quoique je ne l'eusse jamais compté au nombre de mes intimates, e

ables in knickerbockers, who, dressed in ulsters, repair to the turf in a dogcart with a groom and a bulldog. They bring up at a bar and eat a slice of pudding or a sandwich, washed down with a bowl of punc

he French Academy, which was founded to look after the mother