d'automne

By the way, a certain development of the melancholic mood in Verlaine's poem "La chanson d'automne" can be found in the nostalgic poem by Jacques Prévert, music by Kosma: "Les feuilles mortes" = 'dead leaves' (song known in English as 'Autumn leaves').

avant-propos - French Word-A-Day 2010

I, too, had to memorize Chanson d'automne for my French class.

sanglot - French Word-A-Day 2008

By the way, a certain development of the melancholic mood in Verlaine's poem "La chanson d'automne" can be found in the nostalgic poem by Jacques Prévert, music by Kosma: "Les feuilles mortes" = 'dead leaves' song known in English as 'Autumn leaves'.

avant-propos - French Word-A-Day 2010

Les Cowboys Fringants are my favourite Quebecois band and "Toune d'automne" is my favourite Quebecois song.

Archive 2007-01-01 uncorrectedproofs 2007

Now, if you live in Quebec, you might have noticed that the fraises d'automne are available now--if you've never tried them before, they're amazing, oftentimes even better than our summer strawberries, and this cake really lets them shine. fig. i: quebec strawberries

Open House 2009

Now, if you live in Quebec, you might have noticed that the fraises d'automne are available now--if you've never tried them before, they're amazing, oftentimes even better than our summer strawberries, and this cake really lets them shine. fig. i: quebec strawberries

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

The ensuing 1909 painting, "L'énigme d'un après-midi d'automne" (Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon), shows a white, temple-like building and a marble statue against a blue sky.

Contemplating Artistic Mysteries 2008

Snow in Autumn, retitled from the French Les Mouches d'automne (The Flies of Autumn), and not to be confused with the as yet untranslated Les Feux de l'automne (The Fires of Autumn), follows the declining years of Tatiana, faithful nanny to the Karines, a wealthy Russian family forced to abandon their estate during the Civil War and make their home in France.

Irène Némirovsky: The Dogs & the Wolves Coetzee, J.M. 2008

I, too, had to memorize Chanson d'automne for my French class.

sanglot - French Word-A-Day 2008

Ce serait bien de pouvoir s'en reparler en début d'automne…

Notes From San Francisco — Climb to the Stars 2007