The idea of it was not entirely new; so long ago as the seventeenth century Descartes said that "la lecture est une conversation continue avec les plus honnetes gens des siecles passes.
A man most divergent and unlike him, Menou, had drawn the same conclusion: "En revolution il ne faut jamais se mettre du cote des honnetes gens: ils sont toujours balayes.
Les honnetes gens ont toujours peur: c'est leur nature," is a maxim of Chateaubriand.
And Royer Collard, with the candour one shows in describing friends, said: "C'est le parti des honnetes gens qui est le moins honnete de tous les partis.
Y a des honnetes gens partout," he was just chanting for the twentieth time; when up got the Commissary upon his feet and waved brutally to the singer with his cane.
The undaunted Berthelini still continued to proclaim, "Y a des honnetes gens partout!
Those you call robbers are fort honnetes gens: they are merely gentlemen from the wars, as I am myself: soldiers at free quarters, who have ever had a right prescriptive to levy their pay with their own hand.
The list of names was numerous: among them some one wrote, "Tous les honnetes gens de la ville d'Avignon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honnetes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
