Word: morbleu
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...Hulot's Holiday] Tati; and The Love Game, the first New Wave comedy released in the U.S., is a happy, bawdy but somehow innocent and always violently spontaneous little pa ama party. "What you do," the heroine informs the hero thoughtfully, "you do well. But-not seriously." Morbleu! he wonders. What more does the girl want? "A baby." The hero pales at the thought of marriage and fatherhood. "Fill your needs elsewhere," he proclaims indignantly. She finds a rival (Jean-Louis Maury) and gets engaged-but the rival gets cold feet, and at the fade hero tenderly promises heroine...
...then length of one's trousers measured the length of his life, Frenchmen view the sartorial eccentricities of the Herriot government with apprehension. If it is accorded the fate of its liberal English contemporary it may know whereon to blame its fall. A black waistcoat at a formal reception! Morbleu...