His name also seems to have had virtue in it as an expletive, for in the Chronique des Ducs de Normendie et des Rois d'Engletierre the following exclamation occurs: "'Par Saint Julian!
The most celebrated of these deputies were the rois des merciers, who lived on the fat of the land in complete idleness, and who were surrounded by a mercantile court, which appeared in all its splendour at the trade festivals.
In it he says if he does not hear from me he shall return to St. Louis on the evening of the Jour des Rois and be present at the dance, which is by custom a masked dance, and will then find means to carry me off.
What is this ominous chorus, 'Les rois sont passes'?
Corneille, in his Cid, makes one of his personages remark, Pour grands que soient les rois ils sont ce que nous sommes, Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes.
Tavernier saw three larger and more precious among the jewels de notre grand roi, le plus puissant et plus magnifique de tous les rois de la terre, (p.
Abbe Galliani, (Dialogues sur le Commerce des Bleds,) may truly affirm, that it was the residence of the rois tres Chretiens en tres chevelus.
He is there described as, "Ecuyer et huissier d'armes des rois Charles V.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rois" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
