In order to reconcile ourselves with this luxury, which many unthinkingly condemned, let us assist at those jeux du roi, to which all the social notabilities were invited.
The days devoted to jeux du roi were not the only ones on which persons of various stations were invited to the court.
In 1474 the King and Queen assisted at Aix at the first rendition of “Les Jeux de la Fête Dieu.
If the party be of a small and social kind, and those games called by the French les jeux innocents are proposed, do not object to join in them when invited.
Other explanations of this phrase are, however, given (see Les Jeux des anciens, by Becq de Fouquieres).
In the next year he published the poems he had brought back with him from Rome, the Latin Poemata, the Antiquites de Rome, the Jeux rustiques, and the 191 sonnets of the Regrets, the greater number of which were written in Italy.
You must play 'a des petits jeux de commerce' in mixed companies; that article is trifling; I shall pay it cheerfully.
He excuses these short jeux d'esprit by alleging the example of Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice and Virgil's Culex.
Toulouse is known as the city of Literary Fetes, and the reception of Jasmin as Maitre-es-Jeux will long exist as a permanent record in her annals.
Although Jasmin had declared to the Academy of Jeux Floreaux that he wanted nothing more than the diploma they had given him, yet another triumph was waiting him.
The title of Maitre-es-jeux is a rare distinction, awarded only to the highest celebrities.
The Academy of Jeux Floreaux had no prize of 5000 frs.
The ballads, epigrams, and poetical jeux d’esprit to which the circumstances of this famous contest gave birth are sufficiently numerous to fill a volume.
But all the best of his pieces, even the smaller jeux d'esprit, may be read with delight again and again by young and old.
The short juvenile drolleries of his restless youth are the least defective as works of art; and, being brief and simple jeux d'esprit of a rare order, they are entirely successful and infinitely amusing.
To give a poetic and sentimental importance to this occasion the bishop invited the "Consistoire" of the "Jeux Floraux" of Barcelona to hold their forty-fourth celebration here at the same time.
In this his fondness for jeux de mots is as patent as ever, as well as the ease (without conspicuous finish) with which he fitted words to the songs of the day.
He had a good deal to say, and much of it was in the form of jeux de mots.
There is a vein of allegory running through the piece, which has, however, its share of jeux de mots.
Not less irritating were the jeux d'esprit with which Canning continued to assail the ministry in the newspaper press.
This is one of the numerous jeux d'esprit in which Macaulay, in his earlier years, indulged at election times.
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