It was an old prison, long kept for the detention of "femmes et filles, dont la conduite est onereuse," and its character had not been bettered by the character of the female prisoners sent there by the Terror.
Only the Cour des Femmes remains at all as it was in those days.
English Femmes Savantes at the End of the Seventeenth Century.
But Lady Fantast and her daughter have their direct ancestry in Philaminte and Armande in Les Femmes Savantes.
The influence of Molière became more apparent after the presentation of Les Femmes Savantes in 1672.
But the character of Lady Knowell, "an affected learned woman," reverted to Les Femmes Savantes.
It is a close version of Les Femmes Savantes, the rich, middle-class family of Sir Gilbert Wrangle in Cibber's play being the counterpart of the wealthy bourgeois family of Chrysal in Molière.
Les Femmes Savantes, though produced many years subsequently, also found the originals of its characters in the same source whence Molière painted Les Précieuses Ridicules.
Bavette Quand les femmes sont ensemble, elles taillent des bavettes à n’en plus finir = When women get together they indulge in endless gossip.
The French is found in MOLIÈRE, Les Femmes Savantes, ii.
Il n’est bon bec que de Paris” is the refrain of Villon’s “Ballade des Femmes de Paris.
Hence the duchesses were called 'femmes assises;' those of lower rank 'non assises.
The comedy of the Femmes Savantes exposed the later and less apparent but more finely comic absurdity of an excessive purism in grammar and diction, and the tendency to be idiotic in precision.
The Femmes Savantes is a capital instance of the uses of comedy in teaching the world to understand what ails it.
The Agnes of the Ecole des Femmesshould be a lesson for men.
Ladies that soar in the realms of Rose-Pink, whose language wears the nodding plumes of intellectual conceit, are traceable to Philaminte and Belise of the Femmes Savantes: and the mordant witty women have the tongue of Celimene.
His dislike for Molière may have received its encouragement from her, as she was never quite willing to forgive that great genius for his attack upon les femmes savantes.
Oh," said he briefly, and as if it settled the point, "les femmes ont toujours peur!
Esperance is right to have chosen this scene from Les Femmes Savantes.
After the rehearsal of Les Femmes Savantes, when they finished the scene of Iphygenia, Jean Perliez turned to Madame Darbois and inquired the name of Esperance's instructor.
In France this is not the case, and several books have been published there on the subject of les femmes bibliophiles.
The present century has produced two of the most distinguished femmes bibliophiles which this country has ever known.
The founding of the National Council of French Women (Conseil national des femmes francaise) has aided the woman's rights movement considerably.
The secretary of the Federation of Socialist Women (Federation de femmes socialistes) is Madame Tilmans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "femmes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
