In her air and manner is the rare and happy mixture of la grande dame et lafemme aimable, without the slightest shade of affectation.
Luckily for me, the femme de chambre of a grand lady fancied herself ill, mentioned the fancy to her friend, who was one of my patients, and who instantly advised her to consult the celebrated Dr.
Tromperie--shall I no dip mon femme a sour myself vith quite as much bienséance as dat vulgar brute vat I see ducking de ladies yondere?
Belot best for a thoughtful and delightful remark in La Femme de Feu.
La Femme Immortelle, with its diablerie explained and then dis-explained and then clumsily solved with a laugh, makes one wish for an hour or two even of Soulié.
Never would one have believed that the same hand which had wielded with so free a brush the color of the 'Femme en violet.
The portrait of Alba promised to be a magnificent study, worthy of being placed beside the famous 'Femme en violet et en jaune,' which those envious of Lincoln always remembered.
This is the time when I miss my maid; but a dear little femme de chambre of the hotel helped me dress, and it is wonderful how well you can get on with only one hand.
I assure you, in England, the reputation of femme savante is scarcely less odious than that of femme galante.
His Messalina, Lassatta, La Femme au Cochon, and La Femme au Pantin should be studied.
Duc and Madame la Duchesse d'Orleans were not allowed to enter when they liked; of course it was the same with the lady of honour, the other ladies, the chief femme de chambre, and the doctors.
The lady persisted and appeared one morning--a pretty, well-dressed femme du monde whom I had often met without making her acquaintance.
The difference of dress between the jeune fille and the jeune femme is very strongly marked in France.
Princess Bismarck not very femme du monde; she was preoccupied first with her dinner, then with her husband, for fear he should eat too much, or take cold going out of the warm dining-room into the evening air.
The femme incomprise alone feels no anguish if her baby cries, no joy if he laughs, and flies into a divine rage if you remind her that she is a mother.
A novel, Une Femme M'Apparut (1904), is said to be to some extent autobiographical.
Not exactly so, Monsieur," replied the femmede chambre, "Madame was willing to be the first to wish you a happy new year.
A Latin Horæ of the fifteenth century contains on a fly-leaf the ensuing little family story: "Ces Heures apartiennent a Damoyselle Michelle Du Derè Femme de M.
It was Meissonier who said in a Paris salon, when standing before the famous Femme de Munich which Courbet had painted in a few hours for Baron Remberg: "It is no longer a question of art, but of dignity.
In Le Menage Sisley, La Baigneuse au Griffon and La Femme a la Perruche is evinced the love of the connoisseur for rare and rich stuffs.
The right to property implies the right to buy and sell, to will and bequeath, and herein is the dawning of a civil existence for woman, for now the "femme covert" must have the right to make contracts.
When a woman marries, we call her condition coverture, and speak of her as a femme covert.
