Zola's novels, "La Joie de Vivre," can be traced to a short story written for a Russian review.
We possess, as a nation, so strangely the joie de mourir without much knowledge of the joie de vivre.
Many of these took up their abode in Ile St Jean at Port La Joie (Charlottetown), where they soon formed a prosperous settlement and were able to supply not only the fortress but the town of Louisbourg with provisions.
Among the papers found on the Acadians were letters addressed to their friends in Quebec and others from Le Loutre and officers of Fort St John and of Port La Joie in Ile St Jean.
For joie thai wepe with her eighe; That hem so sounde y comen seighe.
Perhaps to none of the Jacobites broken in the cause of the bigot James was death so welcome as to this cold, sombre man, who could describe the joie de vivre of the ancien regime with a gaiety which has never been rivalled.
When Queen Repanse de Joie entered bearing the Holy Grail, Parzival, mindful of his former failure to do the right thing, humbly prayed aloud for divine guidance to bring about the promised redemption.
It's only out of doors that one gets hold of the real joie de vivre.
When she had lived in the world she had seemed, in spite of all her joie de vivre, of all her animation and vitality, somehow apart from it.
Evidently, then, he had not grasped the full meaning of a genuine joie de vivre.
So Adam thoughtenne, whann, ynn Paradyse, All Heavenn and Erthe dyd hommage to hys mynde; Ynn Womman alleyne mannes pleasaunce lyes; As Instrumentes of joie were made the kynde.
Seek not for bloude, Tancarville calme replyd, Nor joie in dethe, lyke madmen most distraught; In peace and mercy is a Chrystians pryde; He that dothe contestes pryze is in a faulte.
I see onnombered joies arounde mee ryse; Blake[68] stondethe future doome, andjoie dothe mee alyse.
Tho was ther joie manyfold, For every man this tale hath told As for miracle, and were glade, Bot nevere man such joie made As doth the king, which hath his wif.
If thou, my Sone, hast joie had, Whan thou an other sihe unglad, Schrif the therof.
And otherwhile I dreme and mete That I al one with hire mete And that Danger is left behinde; And thanne in slep such joie I finde, That I ne bede nevere awake.
And every man began to seie To Paris and his felaschipe Al that thei couthen of worschipe; Was non so litel man in Troie, That he ne made merthe and joie Of that Paris hath wonne Heleine.
Achilles al his hole joie Sette upon Armes forto fihte; Tersites soghte al that he myhte Unarmed forto stonde in reste: Bot of the tuo it was the beste 3590 That Achilles upon the nede Hath do, wherof his knyhtlihiede Is yit comended overal.
For joie his herte was affliht Of that sche tolde in remembrance; And whanne he wiste it was Constance, 1520 Was nevere fader half so blithe.
She could not much longer keep up the brilliant pretence of being an untiring Amazon crammed full of the joie de vivre which she had assumed for the purpose of winning Rupert Louth as a husband.
Many of them still possessed an amazing amount of the joie de vivre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "joie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
