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RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît", [1] meaning "Please respond" (literally "Respond, if it pleases you" ), to require confirmation of an invitation. The initialism "RSVP" is no longer used much in France, where it is considered formal and old-fashioned. In France, it is now more common to use ...
If You Please. If You Please (S'il Vous Plaît) is a Dada – Surrealist play co-written by the French surrealist writer and theorist André Breton and poet and novelist Philippe Soupault . If You Please was written several years before the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto when Breton was primarily associated with Dada.
Please. A polite notice on the side of a bus that reads "please pay as you enter". Despite the politeness of the phrase, paying is not optional. A sign asking visitors to "Please! Close the gate" at Lincoln National Forest. Please is a word used in the English language to indicate politeness and respect while making a request.
a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing. canard. ( canard means " duck " in French) an unfounded rumor or anecdote.
Shall We Kiss? (French title: Un baiser s'il vous plaît) is a 2007 French romantic comedy film directed by Emmanuel Mouret that stars Mouret himself with Virginie Ledoyen, Julie Gayet, Michaël Cohen, Frédérique Bel and Stefano Accorsi. [1] Through frame stories, it light-heartedly explores some of the byways of adulterous passion, ending ...
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( / ˈkuːlɒm, - loʊm, kuːˈlɒm, - ˈloʊm /, KOO-lom, -lohm, koo-LOM, -LOHM; [1] French: [kulɔ̃]; 14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806) was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of ...
The French Language Services Act ( French: Loi sur les services en français) (the Act) is a law in the province of Ontario, Canada which is intended to protect the rights of Franco-Ontarians, or French -speaking people, in the province. The Act does not give the French language full official language status in the province, which has no ...
However, in French-speaking neighbourhoods, instead of "Trick or treat", they will simply say "Halloween", though it traditionally used to be "La charité, s'il-vous-plaît" ("Charity, please"). Trunk-or-treat Trunk-or-treating event held at St. John Lutheran Church & Early Learning Center in Darien, Illinois