Michel says matte is derived from the Italian mattia, folly; so that “enfants de la matte” signifies literally children of folly.
Hotel de la Roche-Guyon and the passage formerly called Passage du Palais Royal, because it was the only one leading from the Rue des Bons Enfants to the Rue de Valois.
This evening, at eight o'clock, I will come for you; we will go to the Rue des Bons Enfants together.
He told how he had been stopped in the Rue des Bons Enfants by a band of robbers, whose lieutenant, a ferocious-looking man nearly six feet high, had wanted to kill him, when the captain had come and saved his life.
In 1792 it became the "Hôpital des Enfants de la Patrie.
The Tete de Jeune Fille and Les Enfants en Rose et Bleu, done about this time, must have been the despair of even the sculptors of his day.
He was sent on a number of special scientific missions, among which may be mentioned one to England, on which he wrote a notable Memoire sur le travail des femmes et des enfants dans les manufactures de l'Angleterre (1867).
Les enfants sont ce qu'on les fait=--Children are what we make them.
Enfants terribles=--Dreadful children; precocious youths who say and do rash things to the annoyance of their more conservative seniors.
If you go into the Enfants Trouvés you'll have a devil of a time of it.
How could he give so fascinating, so valiant a mite over to the Enfants Trouvés?
Rue des Bons Enfantsis a capital example of the Fifteenth Century Timbered inn.
The outer wings of the tribes were spared the shock, and swept on to meet the bayonets of Zouaves and Turcos as, at their swift foot-gallop, the Enfants Perdus of France threw themselves forward from the darkness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enfants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
