He seemed to the backbone, in all the difficult subtleties of society, as in the simple, frank intercourse of man and man, that which even Kaulnitz had conceded that he was, gentilhomme de race.
He isgentilhomme de race, I grant,' admitted with reluctance the Grand Duke of Lilienhöhe.
Gironnière in Calauan, the "gentilhomme Breton" who is so well known for telling the most terrible adventures.
A charming picture of Manila street life, full of local color, is given in the very amusing Aventures d'un Gentilhomme Breton.
Thus Jacques Le Ber, a bourgeois of Montreal who made a comfortable fortune out of the fur trade, bought a seigneury and then acquired the rank of gentilhommeby paying six thousand livres for it.
It was with this idea in view that the Company of One Hundred Associates was empowered not only to grant large tracts of land in the wilderness, but to give the rank of gentilhomme to those who received such fiefs.
Des particularitez et moyens que lon a tenue en ses approches jusques la jen ay dice quelque chose a ce gentilhomme qui est fort affectionne a cest affaire en faveur du bien de la France.
He is a "gentilhomme cadomois," or a gentleman of Caen, and usually attaches the abbreviation G.
If I carried the porter's knot of an Auverguat, I should still remain gentilhomme and Breton.
The gentilhomme who will not defend another gentilhomme traduced, would, as a soldier, betray a citadel and desert a flag.
Yet, now examining his neighbour with more attentive eye, he wondered at his stupidity in not having recognized at once the ci-devant gentilhomme and beau garcon.
Speaking without regard to partial exceptions, the French gentilhomme is essentially a Parisian; a Parisian is essentially impressionable to the impulse or fashion of the moment.
But such acts of justice to a fellow-gentilhomme and a kinsman duly performed, he desired to see as little as possible of the Vicomte de Mauleon.
Now again galloped up the Jagd Junker, or Gentilhomme de la Chasse of his Serene Highness the Prince of Little Lilliput.
I have the honour," continued the huntsman, "of being Jagd Junker, or Gentilhomme de la Chasse to his Serene Highness.
Saar, I have done my duty as a pauvre gentilhomme under the Grand Henri Quatre, both at Courtrai and Yvry, and, ventre saint gris!
When the bourgeois king, Louis Philippe, succeeded to the elder branch, the gentilhomme Français entirely lost his prestige, and the necessity of his existence was ignored.
The terms of the marriage-contract may be quoted as a specimen of the motives by which the premier gentilhomme de France was governed in the transaction.
Although solicited to accept office by every party that rose to power during his life, he steadfastly refused, and yet, by virtue of his quality of premier gentilhomme de France, possessed unbounded influence with them all.
He retired into obscurity with a grace and dignity befitting the premiergentilhomme de France--without reproach, without a stain upon his escutcheon.
Such was the moral life of the man pronounced the premier gentilhomme de France by the fathers and grandfathers of the present generation.
Every generation seems to have furnished its parfait gentilhomme par excellence.
Montrond's successor, the Count de Cambis, the man who has represented the premier gentilhomme de France in our day, died lately at as good an old age as the Count de Montrond.
Now the gentilhomme of France is an entirely different type.
A desperate attempt was made by the imperialists to set up a premier gentilhomme of their own in the person of Count Morny, who sought to revive the traditions of De Grammont and of De Montrond.
His name stood high in the annals of the French noblesse: society had, however, ceased to confound the gentilhomme with the roué.
The conditions necessary to fulfill the character were changed, and it was now the bourgeois gentilhomme and not the gentilhomme roué whose claim to the vacant place was more likely to be accepted.
Montrond, and he again was premier gentilhomme de France while he lived and le dernier des gentilhommes Français when he died.
This premiergentilhomme de France was proud of his want of reading, and used often to declare that the only two books he had ever skimmed were the wearisome Henriade of Voltaire and the frivolous Liaisons Dangereuses of Laclos.
Suppliant a tous ceux qui la verront, croire qu'il a respondu a tous les articles sincerement et en toute verite, comme unGentilhomme bien ne est tenu et oblige de faire.
Behold de gentilhomme dat love a you--throw your arms round my neck like solitaire, and give me kiss, my charming fair.
The head of that house has always called himself le premier gentilhomme de France.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentilhomme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gentleman; lady; trusty
