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"Gallic" Definitions
  1. connected with or considered typical of France or its people
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192 Sentences With "Gallic"

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" With a nonchalant Gallic shrug, he replies: "Of course.
The Gallic entrepreneur was determined to overturn that imperial decision.
And the show's music brings the sound of Gallic authenticity.
Underneath the breezy Gallic grandiosity, Lévy delivers fairly ordinary analysis.
In some ways Mr Macron constitutes a break with Gallic tradition.
Was the fate of its Gallic brethren too much to bear?
But he never had to persuade Gallic workers to retire later.
Some are simply required viewing for anyone who's putting on Gallic airs.
All this dealmaking adds up to a boom in Gallic military exports.
If not, here's a popular Gallic choice: gigot d'agneau, leg of lamb.
Some step into the road dressed as scarecrows, some as Gallic knights.
No doubt les deux vainqueurs both savored their triumphs and shared Gallic roots.
In some cases official behaviour has gone from Gallic defiance to skittish anxiety.
There is even smoke wafting from a lighted cigarette, a very Gallic touch.
Still, the car's French character shines though: It's responsive, lightweight and proudly Gallic.
Less clear, though, is whether Germany is ready to deal with renewed Gallic assertiveness.
The crowing Gallic coq, an eternal symbol of France, must be protected, they say.
White wine, thyme, garlic and parsley — this was leaning in a fairly Gallic direction.
"This time, the moons must be named after giants from Norse, Gallic or Inuit mythology."
France is pursuing the third option, which might be regarded as a Gallic middle ground.
Wim was a tall and handsome teen-ager, with muscular arms and a Gallic nose.
One of her friends said she would not, while the third gave a Gallic shrug.
The Gallic sack took place many centuries before Rome would become a pan-Mediterranean empire.
Everything in tasteful Gallic moderation, except for Huppert, who is a walking avatar of extremity.
But he made it clear that he bore no Gallic grudges against the United States.
I understand why the Gallic literati would want to cling to this surreptitious grammatical secret handshake.
But where is the best place to source pieces with that aura of charming Gallic scruffiness?
Trump's inability to master his own turbulent emotions is not an issue with his Gallic counterpart.
Tradition — the classic books, the Gallic rooster statuette, the rooster being one of the national emblems.
Shuttered windows on the southeastern facade of the main dwelling give the house a slightly Gallic appearance.
Selig is another Canadian offspring, a wiry man with dark, Gallic features and a greeter's easy manner.
If neither can collect something major, there will no doubt be a lingering sense of Gallic underachievement.
It used to be regarded as uncouth to talk too much about our appetites, a bit Gallic.
We started with three Gallic classics: oeufs mayonnaise, soupe à l'oignon and foie gras with onion jam.
Still, for many in France, such outright fake news stories have been met merely with Gallic shrugs.
It's all so Gallic that we can't quite figure out how they're managing to pull it off.
For an American viewer, it was a Gallic clone of our own Republican primary debates a year before.
Respondents came in equal numbers from Wallonia, the country's Gallic-oriented south, and the Francophone majority in Brussels.
People can submit suggestions for the new moons' names on Twitter, pulling from Norse, Inuit, and Gallic mythology.
If there are any doubts that Cassia has a thick Gallic streak, the floating islands will dispel them.
The dish's lineage is most likely Gallic in part, since beef was introduced to Vietnam by French colonists.
To close, he gives a very Gallic shrug when asked what the worst thing about his new job is.
Germany, the main target of the Gallic call for more spending, reckoned its fiscal policy was already pretty expansionary.
Around 22016m Britons crossed the channel to visit their Gallic cousins in 2014, according to the World Tourism Organisation.
Macron will have to temper his innovative, tech-friendly, free-market instincts with a heavy dose of Gallic solidarity.
"He attacked me — I had to respond," Roy said, squeezing his lips out in a Gallic expression of disdain.
She's among the Parisian influencers who are showing an alternative side of Gallic beauty — and it's so refreshing to see.
But using a French press (a сafetière à piston, if you want to be Gallic about it) is even simpler.
Stephen Dillane is her British counterpart, Karl Roebuck, who half-jokingly wonders if her bad manners are because she's Gallic.
It pleased him to vex the "swinish multitude" (a favorite quotation of De Quincey's, from Burke) with that Gallic prefix.
Perhaps Ms. Sui could consider doing a Gallic warrior thing — woolly pelts, studded breastplates, boots laced with sinews — for fall.
The French movie star speed-talks his way through a hurried conversation about sex, Gallic masculinity and the artist Gauguin.
Thursday: David's recipe for baked rice with chicken and mushrooms, a kind of Gallic take on an Indian-style biriyani.
And historians writing in English still use the Gallic "poilu" for a French combat soldier and "Boches" for the Germans.
Fortuna grew up in France and gives this sundae a more Gallic name, calling it a Banana Parfait Mille Feuilles.
With that in mind, she founded Loulou Studio, a line of low-key and distinctly Gallic sweaters, earlier this year.
The hit programme, which appeals to petrol heads and the nation's inner laddishness, was not an obvious fit for Gallic sensibilities.
Disruption over Gallic skies is as sure a sign of the changing seasons as a sight of the first returning swallows.
Fashion reigns, with rugged leather boots by La Botte Gardiane, shimmery retro-1960s dresses by Mood-eh and other Gallic garments.
It will be made by French people with their own vision of France going forward in a new and particularly Gallic direction.
Let's say you are Maurice Marciano: small of stature, sun-kissed, dapper, with a rough Gallic timbre, hooded chestnut eyes, white hair.
Wielded by May's Brexiteer critics, EU negotiator Michel Barnier gives it a Gallic shrug: Britain "must ACCEPT THE RULES OF THE GAME".
As played by Tcheky Karyo ("La Femme Nikita"), Baptiste has a Gallic world-weariness and certitude that take on epic, almost comic dimensions.
She also has an egg topper, which slices off the caps of eggs with Gallic precision, a butter curler and a shrimp deveiner.
A maverick editor, an arbiter of Gallic chic and, most recently, a brand, Ms. Roitfeld has made the most of that city ruling.
Mr Johnson's team is banking on the hope that Conservative Party members will greet any topic other than Brexit with a Gallic "Et alors?"
Bruno Le Maire, a center-right politician, gave the equivalent of a gallic shrug in an interview with the right-leaning newspaper Le Figaro.
Any backlash against the overhaul of the Gallic train system could fuel resentment against the EU, whose rules are forcing the pace of change.
For Mr. Starr, he prepared poulet en vessie, a luxe Gallic hat trick in which chicken is cooked inside a ballooned-up pig's bladder.
A cock — the Gallic rooster that topped the spire, and the unofficial national symbol of France — was found in the debris with significant damage.
And largely affirmed the common terms of Gallic evening hour chic, at least as they have long existed in the court of public imagination.
But it's delivered with Gallic politesse and swamped by a fairy-tale quality that tilts the tone away from urgency and toward winsome innocence.
With a Gallic blend of charm, elegance, aristocratic lineage and impeccable academic credentials, he became a national figure through his writings and television appearances.
Brennus, leader of the Gallic tribe the Senones, used full-strength wine as a tool in his own suicide after being defeated in battle.
The Paris agreement, which saw more than 190 countries pledge to keep global warming to "well below" that threshold, was a triumph of Gallic diplomacy.
French officials said Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Malta were sympathetic to Macron's view - but others privately expressed irritation with what they saw as Gallic grandstanding.
A group of chic Parisians was bobbing absent-mindedly to "San Francisco," by the Gallic rock legend Johnny Hallyday, which was blasting through the foyer.
She is waiting, waiting — like some Gallic Lady of Shalott — to be released from her captivity by the arrival of the man she loves most.
"Emeralds," although Gallic, does not suggest Paris anyway: It seems to belong in some Fontainebleau-like forest glade, whereas these dancers emanate big-city polish.
The gilets jaunes movement had been growing over the past few weeks and clashes with les flics had become a common occurrence across the Gallic republic.
Perhaps the most coherent and forceful contributor is Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), a Franco-Greek thinker who was one of the giants of the Gallic left.
IN IMPISH mood, Paul Bocuse would roll up the sleeve of his whites to reveal, on his left bicep, a tattoo of a Gallic cock crowing.
Escaping what advisers, aides, and other Republicans describe as a White House rattled by Russia bombshells, Trump will find himself here instead embraced by Gallic splendor.
Under the direction of the French architect Thierry W. Despont, the Cartier house has been wholly transformed into a thing of rational and distinctly Gallic beauty.
Directed by Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci, adapting a graphic novel by the revered artist Jacques Tardi, "April" has an alternate-history peg that's irrepressibly Gallic.
It's mostly a series of accounts of wars he waged, from the Gallic War to the African War, which turned the Roman republic into an empire.
The results from the tea study may have been moot, but that gallic acid-measuring test was the proof of concept Mukamal needed for a different study.
Designed by the architect Nobuo Araki, the bare cavernous space below the Sony Building was once home to an even unlikelier operation, the echt Gallic restaurant Maxim's.
French cuisine epitomized fine dining in the United States, especially in Manhattan, where restaurants like Le Pavillon, Le Cafe Chambord and Voisin set an uncompromisingly Gallic tone.
As this family enacts a Gallic variation of the Monty Python "Woody and Tinny Words" sketch, the human body parts in the Brufort hut grow more numerous.
The ingredients for the seasonal Gallic menu came straight from de Libran's organic garden in southwestern France, and the meal was prepared by her family cook, Maria.
While ratings agencies see little chance of either country going bust, it now costs over a third more to insure against a Gallic default than a British one.
Julius Caesar used war journaling, or a written firsthand account of war and its rationale, to justify the invasion and destruction of the Gallic tribes two millennia ago.
The composer, a scion of one of the most ancient and distinguished Jewish families of Provence, produced a brand of Gallic savoir-faire that was a multicolored phenomenon.
A serious hunger for French movies, or even a hankering for an aperitif, is the only prerequisite for attending the Film Society's annual banquet of recent Gallic cinema.
Upstairs, Kim Jones, the new artistic director of the rechristened Dior Men (which until now has gone by the more Gallic Dior Homme), was readying his first collection.
They are part of the largest collection of wooden Gallic sculptures ever found, according to research by Simone-Antoinette Deyts, the archaeologist who studied the site for years.
He is young, he's restless, he's had it with the tired hypocrisy behind Gallic paralysis; and, almost a year ago, he sweeps to victory in a presidential election.
Yet for an unimpeachably Gallic take on musical theater, look no further than "Premature Death of a Popular Singer in His Prime" at the Théâtre de la Colline.
Yet the leaders of Gallic multinationals say they are investing more in the United States, desperate to get the right Chinese commercial strategy, and partnering with Big Tech.
Vin Sur Vingt A group of Gallic wine bars with casual sandwiches, salads and the like has opened its fourth location: 66 West 84th Street, 646-895-9944, vsvwinebars.com.
First, the sometimes-decisive but always-alluring French-girl style is in fullest effect in its home city, and we're watching our Gallic counterparts with eagle eyes for styling tricks.
Gas, dust and collisions in outer space One of the prograde moons has an angle of 36 degrees, similar to the other prograde moons close to Saturn named for Gallic mythology.
The sound is right for this quintessentially French creation, Mr. Nagano evidently having continued to cultivate the Gallic qualities that Charles Dutoit instilled in the Montreal Symphony from 1977 to 2002.
They are known for bon-vivant informality, with a Gallic knack for cooking and a greater propensity than other Germans to use the friendly du pronoun rather than the formal Sie.
We barely had time to seriously consider the unusual diplomacy conducted by French President Emmanuel Macron, who during his three-day visit seemingly transformed our chauvinist president into a Gallic figure.
Did they ever stall, as I once did, at a pivotal juncture at the foot of the Vercors Massif, drawing the ire of Gallic motorists — or the ancient equivalent — honking behind?
With dishes like roasted guinea hen with peaches and fennel and steamed turbot with truffled hollandaise, the menu makes a delectable statement about the glories of Gallic gastronomy that's surprisingly affordable.
Aizpitarte changes his menu daily, but the one thing that stays constant is his take on tocino de cielo (''the lard of heaven''), a decidedly non-Gallic egg custard from Andalusia.
If there's a misconception about the French New Wave, the extraordinarily fertile and inventive period of Gallic cinema associated with the late 1950s and the '60s, it's that it somehow ended.
Yet for all his Gallic expertise, he does not ignore ribs and hot dogs: "A Grandfather's Lessons: In the Kitchen with Shorey," by Jacques Pépin (Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30).
Adding to the night's Gallic glamour were Daniel Boulud, the chef and restaurateur; Frédéric Fekkai, the coif mogul; Charlotte Gainsbourg, the actress; and Anne-Laure Bernard, the wife of the honoree.
Robbins said that the French artisans who made the torch were rumored to have saved buckets of their urine to patinate it, Gallic pee being thought the best for that task.
Front Burner The restaurant Italienne's mission may be to offer food that's a blend of French and Northern Italian cuisines, but its new morning pastry counter has a decidedly Gallic accent.
Because this is the quiet season now, August, when the nation goes slightly Gallic, and there are empty seats on the subway in New York, and no lines at the market.
The designs reflected the designer's signature mix of irreverence and humor: the Eiffel Tower wrapped in a corset, a leggy model dressed in Napoleon's First Consul uniform, a pair of musclebound sailors in Gallic striped sweaters arm wrestling, a corset-wearing hen dancing with a Gallic rooster in a Breton top, and a corseted punk Marianne (the female figure that is a symbol of the French Republic) kicking up her cancan skirt before the Moulin Rouge.
In 2003, Republicans famously rebranded the French fries and French toast offered in House cafeterias "freedom fries" and "freedom toast" to express dissatisfaction with Gallic opposition to the proposed invasion of Iraq.
Johnny Hallyday, the French answer to Elvis Presley, who kept audiences enthralled for nearly 60 years with his Gallic interpretations of American rock 'n' roll and his turbulent offstage life, has died.
But the chemistry between its stars, the ultra-Gallic Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur, playing up her cornfed American quality (early on Boyer's character nicknames her "Kansas"), remains remarkable to this day.
There will also be fresh challenges to Gallic capitalism, including the state's role in guiding industrial policy, as activist investors from New York and London poke around some of the country's biggest companies.
That Louise has a French mother and calls her son by the Gallic endearment "joujou," or toy, further suggests that the young Mr. Shaffer may have had Cocteau's tortured family sagas in mind.
As one of the Arab world's leading experts on the WENA, I knew that the roots of this budding Gallic revolution lie deep in history and a culture that is misunderstood by outsiders.
Quebec used to be more devoutly Catholic than France, but these days it is racing to imitate and even outdo the Gallic motherland in its embrace of secularism, and probably going too far.
Angela Merkel was trundling unstoppably towards a fourth election win, while Britain was out, Italy down and stagnating France gripped by the fear that Marine Le Pen might become the Gallic Donald Trump.
When it comes to personal style, Gallic ladies seem to have that extra something that makes their outfits just a little bit cooler, a tad more unexpected, and a whole lot more enviable.
Sometimes I was the warlord of a powerful Gallic tribal empire, ruling over a land of free tribesmen and a very, very small class of educated "citizens" generating commerce income and technological progress.
She plays Virginie, a high-end prostitute living and working in London for a madam (Karole Rocher, whose look and manner suggest a Gallic Julianne Moore) who treats her like a prized possession.
For most of the 1950s and 1253s, the most visible Gallic presence in Harlem was Frenchy, the flamboyant Haitian-born Camillo Casimir, whose Casdulan Hairdressers on 125th Street was Harlem's largest beauty parlor.
Les sous-marins corsaires Even as the British tried to operationalize the big-gun sub, the French navy doubled down on the concept with its planned "corsair submarines," a thoroughly dashing Gallic term.
Yet its Gallic origin can be clearly seen in the fact that the only products exempt from being on the expensive side (due to being so reliant on imports) are French wine and cigarettes.
The far right in France, for example, wants to go back to "la souche," its roots, and restore the land of its Gallic ancestors to what it was before immigrants, the Stranger, flooded in.
Yet, if drawing the line between harassment, prejudice and Gallic charm makes France a complicated place to be a professional woman, it is also in other ways one of the most supportive in Europe.
The retrograde moons join the Norse group (all named after Norse mythology), while two others join the Inuit group (named for Inuit mythology), and the final moon goes with the Gallic group (again, mythology).
The new Gallic moon orbits much farther away than its companions though, suggested that something has pulled it outward, or that it didn't come from the same collision as the other moons at all.
Big and beautiful, the newcomer replaces the drab Morton's steakhouse with a menu that marries Gallic classics with what the owner says are the wants of the neighborhood's affluent residents, university students and tourists.
Alas, the insouciant Gallic charm will most likely remain as mysterious as it is cliché, but in recognition of Bastille Day on Friday, we have an excuse to renew our efforts to master it.
Getting participants to stick to the program is notoriously difficult, so to make sure they were drinking their tea, Mukumal tested urine samples from a subgroup of participants for gallic acid, a tea breakdown product.
In addition, she won the hearts of such great Gallic geniuses as the poet Alfred de Musset, whose advances she spurned, and the composers Charles Gounod and Hector Berlioz, both of whom were her lovers.
Barely a week earlier, the Balmain designer, Olivier Rousteing, who was raised in provincial Bordeaux, added his voice and talents to the artistic fray with a show filtering Jackson's style through a wacky Gallic lens.
Roger Cohen If there's a better angel of President Trump's nature, a doubtful proposition, then President Emmanuel Macron of France is determined to summon it through a mixture of Gallic logic and alpha-male charm.
France's baguette bakers, backed by President Emmanuel Macron, have put in a bid to get their traditions and techniques - as Gallic as Gauloises cigarettes and the Eiffel Tower - added to the U.N. rankings of intangible treasures.
What saves the play from being a pretentious Gallic snore-fest is that it owes as much to Charlie Chaplin as Schopenhauer: It's full of physical humor, funny bickering, trousers falling down and pungent verbal inventiveness.
Op-Ed Contributor In recent weeks, supermarket shelves in parts of France have been bereft of the butter that sustains French cooking and baking, not to mention the quintessential Gallic pleasure of a baguette au beurre.
The object of this Gallic ire was the Trump administration's threat this week to impose 100% tariffs on some of France's tastiest exports, from cheese to champagne, in response to its government's planned digital-sales tax.
But Macron, while irritating some peers who saw his stance as Gallic grandstanding, insisted that letting Britain stay in the Union any longer risked undermining the project of European integration that is one of his main policy goals.
At a time when so much of the Anglo-American cultural discourse revolves around constraining notions of appropriation, this thoroughly Gallic and unapologetic belief in the universal accessibility of human experience is both refreshing and littered with risks.
The last example we will discuss is the third century BCE Hellenistic sculpture of a Gallic chieftain plunging a sword into his breast while he grabs the limp, lifeless arm of his dying wife whom he has just killed.
In a Gallic variation on the Patriot Act, Mr. Hollande announced not just the extension of the state of emergency and expansion of the state's ability to gather intelligence, but also the constitutional wrinkle concerning terrorists' holding dual nationality.
They're like a quirky, Gallic-inflected buddy comedy, tootling around the countryside in a van that JR has customized to print large-format versions of the pictures he takes of people, portraits he pastes on the sides of buildings.
Norma, the Druid priestess of a Gallic tribe under Roman rule, is caught in a classic operatic dilemma: she has secretly borne children with a Roman, Pollione, who has in turn fallen in love with Adalgisa, a temple virgin.
But all it takes is a glimpse of a Dodo Supermarket, Bijouterie Oomar or Trois-Bras Pooja Shop, or eavesdropping on a snatch of conversation from a sari-clad auntie speaking English with a Gallic accent, to reorient yourself.
At Sucré Salé Bistro, a casual spot near downtown, on the back patio of the Alliance Française de Montevideo, Florencia Ibarra often sneaks refined dishes like rabbit in mustard sauce with boulangère potatoes into her unfussy Gallic-influenced menu.
That's a bit like casting Hugh Grant as a man who's been faking a British accent for years, but it also feels like a jab at the idea of Gallic mystique and what it allows people to get away with.
The roof collapsed onto the floor of St. Joseph the Carpenter, which was built in the 1500s on top of the ancient Mamertine prison, where the defeated Gallic king Vercingetorix and Saints Peter and Paul are said to have been held.
PARIS (Reuters) - Gael Monfils paid tribute to both his girlfriend and his new coach on Thursday, after he won his all-French clash against Adrian Mannarino which set up another Gallic tie in the third round against lowly-ranked Antoine Hoang.
The fact that Waterloo — the Dutch city (now in Belgium) where the British and Prussians defeated the emperor — has become synonymous with the concept of downfall highlights the hold that Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) still has on imaginations, particularly Gallic ones.
The gap between 10-year French and German yields has nearly doubled since end September, the spread against Austria has risen sixfold, while 10-year Gallic bonds now yield 12 basis points more than Belgian ones, rather than one basis point less.
There was something about the recent big displays of American sisterhood laid out on the cover of Time magazine, and at the Golden Globes ceremony, where women turned up dressed in black with their "Time's Up" pins, that seemed to trigger Gallic irritation.
So it's all a bit rich to hear, during the recent French elections, politicians from the left and the right malign Germany for France's enduring economic crisis, arguing that Germany's outsize economic strength has come at the expense of its Gallic neighbor.
After opinion polls in Britain and the United States were criticized, fairly or not, for failing to foresee British voters' decision to leave the European Union and the election of Donald J. Trump, French pollsters could be forgiven for showing Gallic pride.
At a meeting with a group of journalists on Wednesday evening, Mr. Macron said that contrary to common wisdom, he found Mr. Trump to be "very predictable," which would suggest that he did not expect the American president to be swayed by his Gallic reason.
While bringing alive this redolent Gallic chapter of his boyhood (baguettes from the boulangerie; inkwells and laborious handwriting exercises at school), Mr. Carhart also resurrects the mood and mores of a particular window in time: the 1950s of Ike and Elvis's America, and postwar France.
It's as if, in the ancestral era, a Faroese had eaten a mussel and died, while, a thousand miles south, his Gallic equivalent had discovered that a mussel becomes a tasty morsel when steamed, especially if you have wine, garlic, and parsley at hand.
Emmanuel Finkiel's "A Decent Man," the story of a bitter, unemployed working-class father (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who is mugged and wrongly accuses a young Arab, is a squirm-inducing portrait of a Gallic Everyman curdled by frustration and self-loathing into a social menace.
They go to Clown Bar for the intimate room, which is as elegant as it is kitschy; for the wine list, which is full of obscure and wonderful choices; and for the food, which is unmistakably Gallic — turbot with white asparagus, roast pigeon, veal sweetbreads.
Premiering at the Locarno Film Festival—and opening at New York's Metrograph this Friday—the loopy farce at first feels a Gallic mashup of Robert Louis Stephenson and the mad-science flicks of the 1980s (Firestarter, Back to the Future, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids).
DUMONET BROOKLYN Jean-Louis and Karen Dumonet have opened their French bistro with a menu, prepared by Mr. Dumonet, of mostly Gallic specialties like onion soup, cassoulet, roast duck, duck confit and Grand Marnier soufflé: 242 Smith Street (Union Street), 218-215-0963, dumonetbrooklyn.com.
One of Montreal's main draws is the ability to fly from New York City to a French-speaking region in under two hours — without any risk of jet lag — and the city's Gallic roots imbue it with more than a veneer of the continental.
Later this month Christian Dior will show in Chantilly, a short trip outside Paris; Louis Vuitton in St.-Paul-de-Vence, in the South of France, and even Gucci has got in on the Gallic act, choosing to set its runway show in Arles.
For the past 20 years or so, the movies themselves have been consistent in their themes, attitudes and rhythms, but sometimes I'm unable to shake myself out of my sunny, shallow, American mental habits and succumb to the master's gloomy Gallic wit and intellectual intransigence.
Ms. Montevecchi's American show business career reached a peak with her performance in the Tommy Tune musical "Nine" (1982) — for which she won a Tony Award for best featured actress in a musical — and continued with "Grand Hotel," which had a Gallic-flavored score by Maury Yeston.
Nearly three years ago, Kristen Stewart starred alongside Juliette Binoche in Gallic auteur Olivier Assayas' surreal, brilliantly unsettling drama Clouds of Sils Maria; the role earned Stewart the French equivalent of an Oscar and seemed to free her, finally, from the last of Twilight's tween shackles.
When you think of the glamorous women of the other red, white, and blue persuasion, you may think about Audrey Tautou or Léa Seydoux, but Francophiles know that the Gallic set has a lot of diverse inspiration to offer as well — including countless eternally-chic Black women.
Financial difficulties and academic setbacks — his snooty teacher dismisses him as a "Ronald McDonald" — send him packing to his hometown in America, with his new wife, Penelope (Sabina Sciubba), a Gallic knockout who tolerates him only for the green card and promptly moves into her own place.
"I don't have the feeling it's a scoop that France was originally made up of Gallic tribes, which for me is something to be very proud of," he told a news conference in Helsinki, the final leg of a three-day visit to the Nordic region.
You can taste Ms. Giffen's respect for the Gallic kitchen in the way she makes potatoes: the creamy dauphinoise with strip steak, the lavishly buttered chunks and bits of potato with lobster (itself slicked down with olive oil and served with a subtle, earthy blood sauce).
Just by losing the hand-stitched buttonholes and the smart silk linings, he saved himself roughly $800 a suit and simultaneously gained himself a measure of voter approval — appreciation for a cost-value proposition being as deeply Gallic a quality as a love of Serge Gainsbourg.
Georges Bizet's opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" (1863) is a classic example of nineteenth-century French exoticism: it paints a rosy picture of humble pearl fishers in the faraway land of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) with a perfumed, Gallic-sounding score whose sweeping melodies delight the ear.
Main courses like roasted sea bass with cauliflower purée or crispy and custardy veal sweetbreads on wilted Romaine with a Madeira sauce displayed the very British love of savory and fruity flavors, often in the same dish, which has become the rudder of Mr. Pickett's otherwise assiduously Gallic cuisine.
That writer, David McAninch, first encountered his borrowed Gallic terroir in 2012, when he traveled to the region to research a story on duck and rapturously succumbed to the local manner of preparing it — whether confited, carpaccioed, grilled, roasted, braised in wine or scattered as cracklings across a salad.
For me, though, the growing culinary appeal of the Norwegian capital isn't best defined by Michelin — where the dominant DNA is Gallic gastronomic refinement — but rather a delectable local food culture that's based on the country's spectacular seafood and produce, amped up by the brevity of its growing season.
In a head-spinning reversal, the French president, François Hollande, lectured America's president about NATO's "indispensable" nature in his first phone call to Mr Trump—50 years after his predecessor, Charles de Gaulle, withdrew France from military co-operation with the alliance, a Gallic walk-out only reversed in 2009.
We're long past the days when a classic Gallic feast reflexively required bottles of classic Bordeaux and Burgundy; when a night out can go in countless directions — from a New Nordic tasting menu to a Momofuku-style smorgasbord — natural wines lend themselves to the intrinsic flux of all those unexpected flavors.
The French director Claude Berri (1934-2009) was a major figure in the history of mainstream Gallic cinema, and this retrospective includes at least two films, "Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring," starry adaptations of a novel by Marcel Pagnol, that found considerable traction in the United States.
He bought out his MGM contract and returned to France, where, among other things, he made the risqué "Carnival in Flanders" (1935), hailed by the New York Times reviewer Frank Nugent as "a sly, gay and impious farce, typically Gallic in its conception and execution" — in short, everything Feyder's American films were not.
But communicate they must and they do across a score that may devote a bit too much attention to announcing the characters' traits but possesses its own faux-Gallic charms, not least in the zesty chansons that come the way of the matchless Joanna Riding, who juggles three roles with ease throughout.
The Gallic powers that be looked hidebound and prissy; public opinion applauded her (duh!) and suddenly the whole idea of what should and should not be worn on the court and who should get to decide, a subject of debate since Andre Agassi threw his first neon-colored tantrum in the 1990s, was back in the news.
"In an age of globalization, eating a meal at a bouillon is an affirmation of Gallic identity, since the comfort food we serve is so traditionally French," said Christophe Joulie, director of the Groupe Joulie, which owns and runs a number of brasseries in Paris, along with Bouillon Chartier, the 1896 vintage bouillon the company acquired in 2006.
Once there, she falls in with a diverse sexual and social landscape that includes something (or someone) for all tastes, from the nonbinary May (Arun Blair-Mangat, a vocal powerhouse) to Juliet's ever-sassy nurse (Melanie La Barrie), who falls under the renewed spell of Lance (David Bedella, the American performer here sporting a faux-Gallic accent).
And though many residents of Nashville, a bastion of social liberalism in a deeply conservative state, have been willing to dismiss with a kind of Gallic shrug her admission of a monthslong extramarital affair with the police officer leading her security detail, other aspects of the episode are mounting, leading some here to wonder how long she can hang on.
For the time being, he is a vision in Gallic effrontery, pinballing around the stage in the gymnasium at Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, N.Y. The production of Edmond Rostand's canonical 19th-century comedy, which enjoyed a well-attended two-day run early last month, was the work of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, a 20-year-old organization that operates in prisons across New York State.
The designer who almost single-handedly altered the shape of men's wear when, in the early years of the century, he introduced the skinny suit at Dior Homme and who afterward rescued Saint Laurent from the slag heap of market irrelevance with an adoring Gallic skew on Hollywood glamour and Los Angeles youth culture, introduced his first stand-alone collection for Celine on Sunday.

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