The Mercure Galant was a famous magazine of light, periodical amusements such as was then new in France, which had a great sale, and is described in a few lines by one of the characters in this piece.
The Mercure Galant was established in 1672 by one Visé; it was intended to fill the same place as a critical record of polite literature, which the Journal des Sçavans did in learning and science.
There has never been a galant homme among us, I fear, who has not given his wife, even when she was very charming, the right to be jealous.
I replied that I hoped I should conduct myself en galant homme in any circumstances.
The great usage of the world, the knowledge of characters, the brillant dun 'galant homme,' is all that you now want.
Then he returned to the galant style, and in conclusion passed into a bravoura, such as from him even has seldom been heard.
Obliging and galant as he was to the ladies, he seated himself at the piano, and played the wished for walzes, to which the young folks in the adjoining room began to dance.
Endeavor to please others, and divert yourself as much as ever you can, in 'honnete et galant homme'.
I landed at Vert Galant and reported that Ferdy had ‘gone down under control.
This I believe to be a solitary instance of a voyage without anchorage from Port Galant to the narrow channel.
Le Galant Tireur" is a piece I was quite unable to understand.
It is a pity le Roi galant cannot come back to his own for at least one summer night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "galant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
