SAY CHIC... C'est magnifique! Ever wonder why some French words have become so common in English as to be clichĂ©s? Or why your witty repartee wouldn't be quite so witty without them? In Say Chic, Françoise Blanchard and Jeremy Leven collect more than seventy familiar French words and phrases that have become a permanent part of the American vocabulary. In their clever, often amusing style, the authors explain the origin of each word, its meaning, and how it came to be adopted into English. Uniting the sensibilities of an American author and a French author, these surprisingly entertaining stories combine world history, pop culture, etymology, and pithy observations about Americans and the French, with no small amount of panache. Featuring delightful illustrations, Say Chic will find its raison d'ĂȘtre on the bookshelf of anyone who has ever longed to be an American in Paris and hankers for a bit more of that irresistible je ne sais quoi in America.
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Say Chic
A Collection of French Words We Can't Live Without
- 144 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Colophon
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Foreword
- Au naturel
- Au pair
- Bete noire
- Bidet
- Boutique
- Brunette
- Cabaret
- Canard
- Cause célÚbre
- Câest la vie!
- Câest magnifique!
- Chaise lounge
- Charlatan
- Chauffeur
- Chauvinism
- Cherchez la femme
- Chic
- Cinéma vérité
- Cliché
- Coquette
- Coup de grace
- Debonair
- DĂ©but
- Décolleté
- Demimondaine
- DiscothĂšque
- Double entendre
- Ă©minence grise
- Entourage
- Et voila!
- Exposé
- Faux pas
- Femme fatale
- Film noir
- Franglais
- Gauche / gaucherie
- Guillotine
- Ingenue
- Insouciant
- In vogue / En vogue
- Joie de vivre
- Limousine
- Lingerie
- MĂ©nage a trois
- Moustache
- Naif, naive
- Negligee
- Nouveau riche
- Panache
- PiÚce de résistance
- Pied-a-terre
- Protégé
- Raison dâetre
- Recherché
- Rendezvous
- Repartee
- Résumé
- Risqué
- Roman a clef
- R.S.V.P.
- Sangfroid
- Savoir faire
- Soirée
- Soupcon
- Souvenir
- Suave
- Tete-a-tete
- Tour de force
- Triage
- Trompe lâceil
- Vaudeville
- Vignette
- Voyeur
- About the Authors
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