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Voyage au beut de la nuit is a book-with-a-purpose, and its purpose is to protest against the horror and meaninglessness of modern lifeactually, indeed, of life.
Inside the Whale 1940
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Recommended if you don't mind the word "nuit" to be pronounced
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The phrase chalk and cheese springs to mind, or as the French say jour et nuit – day and night.
François Hollande nomination marks the triumph of Monsieur Ordinary 2011
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Pas besoin de clé sauf pour verrouiller la nuit (et encore il arrivait qu'on oublie) ou pour un départ de quelques jours.
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The Dog spends a lot of time at The Sports Depot, an infamous jock-sniffing boite de nuit.
In Which Mad Dog Kicks French Women's Bony Butts Con Chapman 2011
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Chantez, compagnons, dans la nuit la liberté nous écoute.
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Pas besoin de clé sauf pour verrouiller la nuit (et encore il arrivait qu'on oublie) ou pour un départ de quelques jours.
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J 'attenderais pour la nuit mercredi, M. Hogarth - je vous remercie en avance pour mes sweet dreams - Trois bravos! cher homme.
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Avant l'avènement de l'avion, ces voyageurs, arrivant du nord de l'Europe, de Paris et d'Angleterre notamment, faisaient une halte d'une nuit avant de repartir en bateau.
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I remembered a large cour where Mom and I had admired a pretty patch of belle de nuit.
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Empire of Light reflects the chiaroscuro of cinema, where phantasms of light are projected through the darkness and people dream with their eyes wide open; maybe it also alludes to what French film-makers call la nuit américaine, the practice of using special lenses and filters to shoot night scenes in broad daylight.
Trick of the light: the enduring appeal of René Magritte’s big tease Peter Conrad 2024
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