Saturday, April 24, 2010

How do you pronounce this French name?

This guy was a Romantic French organist. I don't know how to say his name: Lef茅bure-W茅ly. Thanks in advance!!!

How do you pronounce this French name?
Luh-fay-boor Way-lee


What is french version of the name Isaac?

Or a french name with Isaac as the derivative.

What is french version of the name Isaac?
French people use the same spelling for Isaac, although it is sometimes arabitized to Ish芒q.

cotton rose

What is the name of the dance where a french guy in a striped shirt fights with his girlfriend?

I believe it's called the Apache dance but that may not be the right way to spell it.

What is the name of the dance where a french guy in a striped shirt fights with his girlfriend?
Oh, I know what dance you're talking about, and it's cool to watch, but I can't think of the name. They did a set of it on "Step It Up And Dance", you could probably find it by searching for the episode they did it on.


Name of a purple chemical used by the French to put in water to wash vegetables like lettuce?

while in Africa I learned that the French medics recommend the use of something that turns the water purple but then is used to purify vegetables before eating. I am looking for the mane of this product.

Name of a purple chemical used by the French to put in water to wash vegetables like lettuce?
This is the chemical, it seems to be quite poisonous, I did not know that, we used to purify our vegetables for years with this component that was called Kali or something similar. The real name is Potassium Permanganate:





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_p...
Reply:I don't know the exact product you are referring to, but when I was in Mexico City I had a solution I bought at Wal-Mart that I used to disinfect vegetables. You don't actually use it to wash the vegetables, but instead you soak them in a mixture of this solution and water. As I recall, the solution I bought contained silver as a disinfectant, and it was kind of brown in appearance. It seemed to me that it was kind of a generic brand. So similar solutions are probably available under many brand names. Hopefully it will be available for sale in the area where you need it.


What's the name of the company that hosts conversation meetups between a French person and an Anglophile?

My question didn't fit in the question box. ..


I've heard that there are programs in Paris where an English-speaker who wants to learn French can meet with a Frenchie who wants to learn English. The two meet for two hours; they speak an hour of French and an hour of English. I want to know the name of the company that hosts this program, so that I can join. It's free, apparently.

What's the name of the company that hosts conversation meetups between a French person and an Anglophile?
I haven't heard of that specifically, but you might try www.meetup.com. By the way, I wouldn't call them "Frenchies"; it sounds a little derogatory. If you can't bring yourself to say "French people", then perhaps "les francaises" is acceptable...

spurge

What was the bristish name for fort duquesne during the french and indian war?

The British called it Fort Pitt. It was located in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.


What is the name of the beautiful blonde on the French channel on cable TV? I have not been able to google her

For years I've been seeing this beautiful French speaking girl on the educational channel and I have no idea what her name is. I don't speak French but I love to watch her anyway. I've tried googling every which way but to no avail. Just curious if anyone knows her name or knows of a fan site dedicated to her.

What is the name of the beautiful blonde on the French channel on cable TV? I have not been able to google her
Is this her? (her name is Sidonie Bonnec)





http://www.page2007.com/people/wp-conten...





If so, check out this link for the channel she works for:





http://w9blog.m6blog.fr/








If it's not her, what channel is she on and what cable do you subscribe to?
Reply:errr... 0.o madonna?


I need help finding a name for my French thoroughbred gelding he does not have a name yet and he is 16.3hh all

he is so loving but vary huge!

I need help finding a name for my French thoroughbred gelding he does not have a name yet and he is 16.3hh all
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/fro...





for ideas
Reply:I have always looked at the personality of the animale to figure out the name by the pesonality
Reply:Tolouse?


Jean-Luc?


Jean-Pierre?


Monsieur?
Reply:Contact various companies to see if they'll pay you to name him after their product and cover him with some sort of banner displaying the name.
Reply:Ummm. well it always pretends of its fur when it comes to horses my name would be hugo i just like harry Potter and your horse is huge
Reply:Jacques Strappe


What is a good French name for a cleaning company?

Le McDufus Cleaning Service.

What is a good French name for a cleaning company?
La Teinturerie


elegant french word for cleaning service
Reply:La Bon Merde and Broom

winter sweet

Can you find information for a french painter name Pierre born in Lyon france in 1905?

oil painting of notre dame

Can you find information for a french painter name Pierre born in Lyon france in 1905?
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes


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Pierre-C茅cile Puvis de ChavannesPierre Puvis de Chavannes, (December 14, 1824 鈥?October 24, 1898) was a French painter.





He was born Pierre C茅cile Puvis de Chavannes in Lyon, Rh么ne, France.





In 1844 he went to Paris, where he studied under Eug猫ne Delacroix and Thomas Couture. It was not until a number of years later when the government of France acquired one of his works that he gained any sort of wide recognition. Although he studied with some of the romanticists, his work is seen as symbolist in nature and he is credited with influencing an entire generation. In turn, one of his proteges was Georges de Feure.





In Montmartre, he had an affair with one of his models, Suzanne Valadon, who would become one of the leading female artists of the day.





He is noted for painting murals, several of which can be seen at the H么tel de Ville (City Hall) in Paris and Poitiers, the Sorbonne, and the Paris Panth茅on, as well as in the United States at the Boston, Massachusetts Public Library. His easel paintings can be found in many American and European galleries. Some of them are:





Death and the Maiden


The Dream


The Poor Fisherman


Vigilance


The Meditation


Mary Magdalene at St Baume


Saint Genoveva


Young Girls at the Seaside


Mad Woman at the Edge of the Sea


Hope


Kneeling nude woman, viewed from back


He was president and co-founder in 1890 of the National Society of Fine Arts (Soci茅t茅 Nationale des Beaux Arts)(1)





Puvis de Chavannes prize (Prix Puvis de Chavannes)





Awarded from 1926 by the National Society of Fine Arts (Soci茅t茅 Nationale des Beaux Arts), Prix Puvis de Chavannes consists in a retrospective exhibition of the main works of the prizewinning artist, in Paris. During the twenteenth century, this exhibition was located at the Grand Palais or the Mus茅e d'Art Moderne.





Most famous awarded painters: 1941: Wilhem Van Hasselt, 1944: Jean Gabriel Domergue, 1952: Tristan Klingsor, 1955: Georges Delplanque, 1957: Albert Decaris, 1958: Jean Picard Le Doux, 1963: Maurice Boitel, 1966: Pierre Gaillardot, 1968:Pierre-Henry, 1969:Louis Vuillermoz, 1970: Daniel du Janerand, 1971: Jean-Pierre Alaux; 1975: Jean Monneret, 1987: Andr茅 Hambourg(1).
Reply:Is this him?





Pierre Tal-Coat (1905-1985) painter





Tal-Coat's birth name was Pierre Louis Jacob. He was born in Brittany, a fisherman's son, and came to Paris in 1924. He chose the surname Tal-Coat (Breton for "Wood Face") to avoid being confused with the artist and poet Max Jacob. Tal-Coat was one of the most imprtant figures in the post-war School of Paris. One of the founders in the mid-forties of Tachisme, a lyrical abstract movement that was the French version of Abstract Expressionism, his paintings were acclaimed and admired by fellow artists such as Andre Masson. He also wrote on painting. His etchings and lithographs encapsulate the essence of his minimalist paintings.Tal-Coat was awarded the Grand-Prix National des Arts in 1968. His works have been featured in one-person shows at the Galerie de France (1945-1946), the Berne Kunsthalle (1957), the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (1960), Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (1963), the Maisons de la Culture du Havre and d'Amiens (1969), Galerie Benador, Geneva (1970, 1972, 1975, and 1979), Galerie l'Entracte, Lausanne (1973), the Musee de Metz (1974), the Musee Royal de Parc Veno, Tokyo (1975), Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne (1979), Galerie Ditesheim, Neufchatel (1979), and at the Chateau de Ratilly (1979), Mus茅e d'Evreux (1983), Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris (1983), Musee des Beaux-Arts de Quimper (1985), Maison de la Culture, Bourges (1987), Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (1988), and Centre National des Lettres, Paris (1988). In 1968, there was a travelling retrospective at the Galeries Benezit, d'Incelli, and Schoeller; in 1976, he was the subject of a career retrospective at the Grand Palais, Paris. From 1954 on, he was primarily represented by the Galerie Maeght, Paris, and was the subject of a number of issues of the deluxe art review, Derri猫re le Miroir (numbers 64, 82/84, 114, 120, 131, 153, and 199). Finally, we have just learned (compliments of an announcement that G茅rard Titus-Carmel is having an exhibition there) that Tal-Coat has had a museum named in his honor, the Galerie Pierre Tal-Coat, Centre culurel, Hennebont.


Select Bibliography:


Danie Abadie and Christian de Manoir, Tal-Coat (Paris: Galerie Patrice Trigano, 1983); Alice Baxter et al, Tal-Coat, parcors 1945-1983 (Evreux: Mus茅e d'Evreux, 1983); Samuel Beckett and Pierre Duthuit, "Three Dialogues: Tal-Coat, Masson, and Bram van Velde," in Transition n. 5 (Paris, 1949); Andr茅 Carious and Daniel Dobbels, Hommage 脿 Pierre Tal-Coat (Mus茅e des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, 1985); Michel Dieuzaide, Vers La Courbure: L'Atelier de Pierre Tal-Coat Vu Par Michel Dieuzaide (Paris: Clivages, 1983); Pierre Tal-Coat, Raoul-Jean Moulin, Andre du Bouchet, Tal-Coat (Paris: Grand Palais, 1976); Pierre Tal-Coat, Vers ce qui fut est ma raison profonde de vivre (Lausanne: Fran莽oise Simecek, 1983), Pierre Tal-Coat, Retrospective des dessins et oeuvres sur papier (Rennes: Mus茅 des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, 1988).


Give the name of the French author who wrote the short story - The Necklace?

Henri Ren茅 Albert Guy de Maupassant (IPA: 伞id蓹mopas虄蓱) (5 August 1850 鈥?6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story.





Maupassant is one of the fathers of the modern short story. Unlike the more psychologically oriented Turgenev and Chekhov, Maupassant delights in clever plotting, and served as a model for Somerset Maugham and O. Henry in this respect. His stories about real or fake jewels (The Necklace, 'Les bijoux') are imitated with a twist by Maugham ('Mr Know-All', 'A String of Beads') and Henry James ('Paste'). As a stylish writer with a huge popular appeal he may be compared to Georges Simenon.





The Necklace, in fact, viciously punishes its lead characters for their needless guilt and dishonesty, signs of vanity, in a very heavy-handed way. Here is how it ends, with the protagonist encountering, after a decade of slaving to repay her debt for the diamond necklace she lost, the woman who owned the necklace:








One Sunday, as she had gone for a walk along the Champs-Elysees to freshen herself after the labors of the week, she caught sight suddenly of a woman who was taking a child out for a walk. It was Madame Forestier, still young, still beautiful, still attractive.


Madame Loisel was conscious of some emotion. Should she speak to her? Yes, certainly. And now that she had paid, she would tell her all. Why not?


She went up to her.


鈥楪ood morning, Jeanne.鈥?br>

The other did not recognize her, and was surprised at being thus familiarly addressed by a poor woman.


鈥楤ut...Madame...鈥?she stammered. 鈥業 don鈥檛 know...you must be making a mistake.鈥?br>

鈥楴o...I am Mathilde Loisel.鈥?br>

Her friend uttered a cry.


鈥極h!...my poor Mathilde, how you have changed!...鈥?br>

鈥榊es, I鈥檝e had some hard times since I saw you last; and many sorrows...and all on your account.鈥?br>

鈥極n my account!...How was that?鈥?br>

鈥榊ou remember the diamond necklace you lent me for the ball at the Ministry?鈥?br>

鈥榊es. Well?鈥?br>

鈥榃ell, I lost it.鈥?br>

鈥楬ow could you? Why, you brought it back.鈥?br>

鈥業 brought you another one just like it. And for the last ten years we have been paying for it. You realize it wasn鈥檛 easy for us; we had no money....Well, it鈥檚 paid for at last, and I鈥檓 glad indeed.鈥?br>

Madame Forestier had halted.


鈥榊ou say you bought a diamond necklace to replace mine?鈥?br>

鈥榊es. You hadn鈥檛 noticed it? They were very much alike.鈥?br>

And she smiled in proud and innocent happiness. Madame Forestier, deeply moved, took her two hands.


鈥極h, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs!鈥?br>




Such coincidences do occur in life, and taken as an isolated tale it does not matter, but Maupassant鈥檚 tales, like those of O. Henry, are best read in small bunches, as this collection has, where the stock manipulations do not get repetitive as a hammer. Read Maupassant, and check out the Dover Books website, but realize the former works best as a curio of a lost time, and not a thing of the now.

Give the name of the French author who wrote the short story - The Necklace?
Guy de Maupassant
Reply:Guy de Maupassant
Reply:It's Guy de Maupassant. Hope this helps. :0)
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Reply:Guy de Maupassant


What's the most French way to spell this name?

Marlo, Marlow, or Marlowe?

What's the most French way to spell this name?
marlot or marleaux
Reply:none.





like everyone else has said, either Marleaux (or Marleau which is the plural but sounds the same) or Marlout. but with the latter you will get people saying Mar-lout.
Reply:Neither one seems particularly French. Try something with a U or a silent T





Marlout


Marlot
Reply:Marleau
Reply:Marleaux





But I like the name "Marlow", French or not.
Reply:Well french people have to be dumb and put in a bunch of silent letters so something along the lines of Marloahfusidhs





but seriously Marleuax?


In the episode of Lost "This Place is Death," what is the french woman's name?

The one is Rousseau's group that gets killed first by the monster.

In the episode of Lost "This Place is Death," what is the french woman's name?
Danielle Rousseau is known as "The French Woman". The other gal is Nadine.
Reply:Nadine
Reply:Her name is Nadine.

royal blue

A french name for animal fat?

sinew is the name for tendon what is the name of fat?

A french name for animal fat?
crepe, jambon, deglace -


If your last name origin is French or Italian for example, is that your heritage?

Because my last name is Smith and it's English and also my grandfathers last name is Martin and it's French, German, and English, and also my grandmother's maiden last name was Kyles and its Scottish.So does that mean that I am all these things? Thanx!

If your last name origin is French or Italian for example, is that your heritage?
Not necessarily. People have become so watered down culturally over the years through intermarriage in different cultures. Plus, people would change their names if they went somewhere different and names change over the years. So no, just because those are their last names, doesn't necessarily mean that's is their ethnic heritage.
Reply:Not necessarily. For example, I have heard that there are a lot of Negroes living in France with French surnames. When they were servants to the wealth French, they took the surnames of their masters.
Reply:Your last name is an indication of your heritage but by no means is it an absolute link. Slaves, servants, migrants readily assumed the names of local people and their employers. Also, if you live in the USA, many immigration officials "changed" the names of immigrants for reasons ranging from simplicity to stupidity.





I think it is cool to have names from many heritages in your background.
Reply:At least a part of your heritage. I know of ancestors from several European countries, so when asked about my heritage, I can say European or one of those coumtries in Europe.
Reply:It's very likely, but necessarily. Your grandfather's family could have changed their name to Smith (for instance it was very common for immigrants - especially from eastern european countries - to have their name shortened or americanized when arriving in the US in the early 19th century).
Reply:NO, YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE AND BE PROUD OF IT. MY MOTHER IS SCOTTISH AND MY DAD IS GERMAN. BUT I AM 100% AMERICAN AND PROUD OF IT!
Reply:You are a mut. Be proud of it!
Reply:YES IT IS YOUR HERITAGE AND BE PROUD OF IT MINE IS AUSTRALIAN AND ENGLISH AND I AM VERY PROUD OF MINE


BESIDES OF YOUR FOREFATHERS OR MOTHERS DIDNT COME FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY YOU MAY NOT BE HERE FIND OUT YOUR ANCESTRAL HYSTORY ITS FUN
Reply:i dunno.
Reply:Yes that is your heritage because your natives gave u that last name!
Reply:More than likely-- it does. However, the only way to be sure is to research your family %26amp; find out where they actually originated.


What is the name of the French film about a nasty old lady and her nastier young caregiver?

The film was late 80s or early 90s.


The care-giver of a vile old woman dies, and the old woman's family will do anything to find someone to watch her. A young, unkind girl takes the job, and a malicious battle between the vixens escalates.

What is the name of the French film about a nasty old lady and her nastier young caregiver?
The movie is "Tatie Danielle" (1990). I saw it at an Art-House theater when it first came out. Bitchy fun. I've provided a link for you.
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What is the name of the French player that missed the penalty goal to lose the 2006 World Cup?

David Trezeguet, only 6 years ago he scored the golden goal against the same team to win the 2000 European Championship.

What is the name of the French player that missed the penalty goal to lose the 2006 World Cup?
David Trezeguet
Reply:CHUMP
Reply:Mr. Fuckin David Fuckin Trezeguet Fuckin
Reply:trezeguet
Reply:Trezeguet. And he is know as Trezegoal...
Reply:tresequet by a ******* inch
Reply:trezeguet...that sucks!!

iris

What was the name of the strikers in the french world team in 1998?

They were Christophe Dugarry, David Trezeguet, Thierry Henry, Stephane Guivarc'h and Youri Djorkaeff.

What was the name of the strikers in the french world team in 1998?
Well there was Henry, Trezeguet, Christophe Dugarry, Stephane Guivarch (not sure about the spelling) and I think one more who I can't think of
Reply:la box er


What is Bastille day called in french, or the french name for it?

"Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is called "F锚te Nationale" ("National Holiday"), in official parlance, or more commonly "quatorze juillet" ("14th of July")." (Wikipedia)

What is Bastille day called in french, or the french name for it?
Just " le 14 Juillet" or "la f锚te nationale".
Reply:Quatorze Juillet (14th July) or La Fete National


Whats the name of that young guy that sings kind of like sinatra. He has sort of a french name i think?

I agree that it is Michael Buble--he is Canadian. His new album title is "Call Me Irresponsible".





Many have compared his singing style to Frank Sinatra.

Whats the name of that young guy that sings kind of like sinatra. He has sort of a french name i think?
He is Italian by ancestry, sings nicely, but not in the catagory of Sinatra who was and is the very best ever.
Reply:Michael Buble