Ne loutede faire; That folk helden me a fool, And in that folie I raved.
L'esprit de la plupart des femmes sert plus à fortifier leur folie que leur raison=--The wit of most women goes more to strengthen their folly than their reason.
C'est une grande folie de vouloir être sage tout seul=--It is a great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
La plus courtefolie est toujours la meilleure=--The short folly is always the best.
They both turned into the Rue de la Folie Regnault, and reached the outer Boulevards by way of the Rue du Chemin Vert.
In order therefore to reach the corner of the Rue Merlin, it occurred to him to take the Rue de la Folie Regnault, which winds round in the rear of the prison, farther on.
Periodic changes in personality without amnesic dissociation are found in the region of folie circulaire, but are rarely seen in hysterics, as Renaudin's[66] case shows.
South of the Cambrai road on the right two platoons holding the sunken road running from Fontaine to La Folie Wood offered a most heroic resistance.
As is liable to happen when an attack is delivered from the point of a salient, the advancing infantry were badly enfiladed by machine-guns from the direction of La Folie Wood on their right flank.
The line between La Folie and the junction of the Neuville-St. Vaast road covered the Labyrinth, which the French had won in the summer of 1915, and it was here that the main force of the German attacks was launched.
Tolstoi confesses that philosophic scepticism had led him into a condition approximating to madness; let us add, to folie du doute.
Gérard de Nerval was subject tofolie circulaire, with alternate periods of exaltation and depression, each of which lasted six months.
Among men of genius we often find the phenomena which characterizes that disorder termed by alienists folie du doute, one of the varieties of melancholia.
And every one will think of the great poet-alienist who divined insanity in genius, and left of it a monumental portrait in Hamlet, the man afflicted by folie du doute.
In Coleridge, the mania of morphia was associated with folie du doute.
Folie Titon, within its walls a fine staircase and ceiling, the latter damaged of late owing to a fire.
Its present name recalls the Louis XV Folie Marboeuf once there.
At a little distance, on higher ground, was another hôtel known as la Folie Gobelin.
That the public of 1799 did not like the book and did like La Folie Espagnole is not surprising; but the bearing of this double attempt on the growth of novel-writing as a regular craft is important.
He says: 'I have had under my care altogether about 40 cases of typicalfolie circulaire.
Retreat classed as mania and melancholia have proved to be folie circulaire.
Le Grande du Saulle has given to the disease in which there is a morbid doubt about everything done, the name folie de doute.
In addition, she suffered from echolalia, echokinesis, and folie du doute.
The term folie du pourquoi has been applied to the irresistible habit of some to unearth an explanation for the most commonplace of facts: "Why has this coat six buttons?
Whenever he gets very much disturbed over business matters, as is likely to happen in panic times, he develops a very striking folie du doute, or doubting mania.
At times when his foliedu doute is at its worst, he has been known to go back three or four times to close windows or for some other trivial reason.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "folie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
