Fleur de lys in French literature?
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The fleur-de-lis (also spelled fleur-de-lys; plural fleurs-de-lis or -lys; an archaic spelling is fleur-de-luce) is used in heraldry, where it is particularly associated with the French monarchy (see King of France). The fleur-de-lis remains an unofficial symbol of France (along with the Bees and the napoleonic eagle), but has not been used as an official symbol by the various French republics.\n\nIt is also used by Various Scout organizations, worldwide as part of their logo.\n\nThe variant fleur-de-luce has been interpreted as meaning "flower of light" since lux (oblique stem luc-) is Latin for "light".\n\nOrigins\nThe name translates into English as "lily flower", and the symbol is in fact a stylized Iris Pseudacorus l.. It was adopted by King Philip I of France in the 11th century. His grandson Louis VII was the first to adopt the Azure semé-de-lys Or (a blue shield with a tight pattern of small golden fleur-de-lis) as his badge, and this came to be so closely associated with his country that it is now known as "France Ancient". Three gold flowers on a blue background ("France Modern") dates to 1376 and Charles V of France.\n\nThe fleur-de-lis' origins with French monarchs stems from the baptismal lily used in the crowning of King Clovis I. To further enhance its mystique, a legend eventually sprang up that a vial of oil descended from heaven to anoint and sanctify Clovis as King. The thus "anointed" Kings of France later maintained that their authority was directly from God, without the mediation of either the Emperor or the Pope. Other legends claim that even the lily itself appeared at the baptismal ceremony as a gift of blessing in an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Catholic Church later endorsed the legend by associating Mary with the symbol. There are many legends, for instance that Clovis saw an angel.\n\nThe oldest legend tells that the lily sprung from the tears shed by Eve (Adam and Eve) as she left the Garden of Eden. (just as that unrelated flower, the lily of the valley, was said to have grown from the tears of the Virgin at the foot of the Cross). From early records (it was the flower of Hera, the Greek moon goddess) it has been the symbol of purity and was accordingly readily adopted by the Church to associate the Virgin Mary's sanctity with events of special significance. Some historians of heraldry have claimed that the fleur-de-lis actually originated as a stylized bee, or a stylized frog. Other explanations include the shape having been developed from the image of a dove descending, which is the symbol of the Holy Ghost.\n\nIt is not rare, until the end of the 12th century, to see Christ represented amidst more or less stylised lilies or fleurons, whose design also recall the Trinity of the Chrismon (Tree) (Christ's monogram).Then, slowly, on this Christic content is added a Marial symbolic, linked to the development of the Cult of Mary, and to which the next verse of the Song of Solomon is related (2:2): "sicut lilium inter spinas, sic amica mea inter lilias" ("as the lily [stands out] among the thorns, thus my love [stands out] among the lilies"), as well as many parts of the Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church, where the lily is presented as symbol of purity, virginity and chastity. In iconography, the fleur-de-lis becomes the favorite attribute in the Assumption of Mary, the Black Madonna.\n\nSo contrary to popular belief, the fleur-de-lis did not originate in France. Its traces origins back to Ancient Egypt (or earlier) and the sacred lotus symbol for plant meaning Tree of Life explained. Here it is room for speculations about Moses ("son of Egypt") and his Egyptian cultural heritage in the writing of the book of Genesis). In ancient Egypt and in India (as in Christianity etc) the fleur-de-lis was used as symbol meaning life and resurrection. In Egypt it was also the attribute of th
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I assume you mean loup-garou?  The French/Creole/Cajun vampiric werewolves who suck the life out of people as they sleep and sometimes force their victims to take on animal shapes and do their bidding?\n\n"Many of the werewolves in European tradition were most innocent and God-fearing persons, who suffered through the witchcraft of others, or simply from an unhappy fate, and who as wolves behaved in a truly touching fashion, fawning upon and protecting their benefactors." -- wikipedia
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."\nPg. 73 of my hardback version.\nBeautiful book - you should read all of it!\nSorry, I don't have a copy in French & my knowledge of the language is not good enough.
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Dire d'un club qu'il est magique, même si cela resterait de l'utopie, ce serait au moins significatif du rêve qui se dessine en le voyant jouer.\nJe comprends qu'il puisse exister des supporters parisiens, mais de là à dire que Paris est magique, c'est de l'acharnement thérapeutique ou de l'auto-persuasion.
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Edgar Allen Poe's Lenore:\n\nLenore\n\n   Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!\n   Let the bell toll!- a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;\n   And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?- weep now or nevermore!\n   See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!\n   Come! let the burial rite be read- the funeral song be sung!-\n   An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young-\n   A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.\n\n   "Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,\n   And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her- that she died!\n   How shall the ritual, then, be read?- the requiem how be sung\n   By you- by yours, the evil eye,- by yours, the slanderous tongue\n   That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?"\n\n   Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song\n   Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong.\n   The sweet Lenore hath "gone before," with Hope, that flew beside,\n   Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy\n        bride.\n   For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies,\n   The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes\n   The life still there, upon her hair- the death upon her eyes.\n\n   "Avaunt! avaunt! from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven-\n   From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven-\n   From grief and groan, to a golden throne, beside the King of\n        Heaven!\n   Let no bell toll, then,- lest her soul, amid its hallowed mirth,\n   Should catch the note as it doth float up from the damned Earth!\n   And I!- to-night my heart is light!- no dirge will I upraise,\n   But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days!"
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In the play, the Varsouviana Polka \nhttp://www.studyworld.com/newsite/ReportEssay/Literature/Play&#92;A_Streetcar_Named_Desire-381957.htm
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Star-crossed lovers; met at her daddy's rave.\nRome and Jules were diggin' on each other.\nJulie to him her betrothal vow gave.\nTybalt's bad news (cousin, not her brother).\n\nThey hooked up; Friar Laurence on the sly.\nTybalt wasted Rome's boy Mercutio.\nRome's vengeance; to Mantua he must fly.\nJulie and Paris; wedding bells (oh no!).\n\nFriar Laurence's scheme; plan he had laid.\nJules fakes death, will marry Paris never!\nRome's taken in! Julie falls on her blade.\nThe true lovers together forever.
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On a quand même très vite fait de glorifier les gens puis de leur cracher dessus (l'image n'est pas forcément pour Barthez...)... Je recommence! =)\n\nOn a quand même vite fait de glorifier les gens puis de les piétiner je trouve!!! Barthez EST un excellent gardien, Coupet aussi certes, mais au niveau de l'expérience, de la maturité et du sang froid, notre cher international au crâne rasé est encore devant Grégory COUPET!\n\nAlors OUI, Barthez doit rester le gardien titulaire de l'équipe de France, à mon humble avis!
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Since they seem to be in French?  I can't translate the titles, but they do seem to be mass printed.  There is one book on Amazon.com for sale used.  There are a few othere books on Amazon.fr and Amazon.ca
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- lire un bon livre\n- voir un bon film (non coupé de pub)\n- faire une marche\n- écouter de la musique\n- s'adonner à sa passion (cuisine, petit train, macrame, jardiner,...)\n- méditer, relaxer, respirer
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the egg? I've never heard of the book, must be a higher level of French.
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This phrase, in which French refers to "bad language", is employed when the speaker feels compelled to use an obscenity despite having listeners who might be offended.  It's a late 19th century euphemism which first appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1895.\n\nIt is thought that the term French is employed in this sense as it already had a history of association with things considered vulgar.  As far back as the early 16th century, French pox and the French disease were synonyms for genital herpes, and French-sick was another term for syphillis.  The OED [Oxford English Dictionary] also equates the adjective French with "spiciness", as in French letter for "condom", French kiss (1923) and French (i. e. "sexually explicit")
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none is good.\ntry this =\nhttp://www.answers.com/The+Great+Gatsby?gwp=11&ver=1.1.2.381&method=3\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby\nhttp://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/gatsby.html\nhttp://www.questia.com/library/literature/literature-of-specific-countries/american-literature/20th-and-21st-centuries/great-gatsby.jsp?CRID=great_gatsby&OFFID=se2&KEY=Great_Gatsby&OVMTC=standard&OVRAW=The%20Great%20Gatsby&OVKEY=great%20gatsby\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071577/\nhttp://www.geocities.com/andrew_dilling/\n\nhope this helps.\nwill i get 10 pts?
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It is a French royal symbol that means "lis flower"
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Notes\n\n*Lully: composer in the court of Louis XIV, very influential in the development of French opera. [Back to text]\n\n*Miss Clairon: a well-known Parisian actress of the eighteenth century. [Back to text]\n\n*The Rameau of this dialogue (Jean-Francois Rameau) is the nephew of a well known composer, Jean-Philippe Rameau). [Back to text]\n\n*Hus: a well-known Parisian actress, the lady whose home the younger Rameau was ejected from.  [Back to text]\n\n*Calas: this name refers to a very famous case of persecution against a Huguenot family.  Voltaire gained an enormous amount of attention by coming to the defence of the family and attacking the church's treatment of them. [Back to text]\n\n*Bouret: An important pubic official, famous for his excessive flattery.  Once, when the king was visiting Bouret's country home, he came across a book called True Happiness, in which every page had written on it "The King visited Bouret."  The phrase "torches on the road to Versailles" refers to an incident when Bouret arranged for his servants to line the road with torches to give light to the king at night as he travelled to Versailles. [Back to text]\n\n*Noverre was a dancer who wrote a book about dancing techniques. [Back to text]\n\n*Lais and Phryne were well known prostitutes.
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tha't not something easily traced beause it's not likely to appear in print. except as dialoguein stories, perhaps.\n\nyou could ask mcichael quinion at world wide words...
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WHERE DO YOU GO TO MY LOVELY, by Peter Sarstedt\n\nhttp://membres.lycos.fr/galinou/sarstedt/sarstedt.htm