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...girl dressed in their parents' clothes, take a mock-adult trip to Paris. The author's gentle wit consists in creating a mildly inappropriate setting for the appropriate French phrase. The little girl falls into a fountain under a spouting marble fish. Caption, "Il pleut, Monsieur (eel pluh muh-seyuh)," means "It is raining, sir." Irene Haas's line drawings superbly evoke a tourist's Paris. A book for the household that thought it had everything when it bought Winnie Ille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Children | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...Comme il pleut sur la ville." Humbly, Francophile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UN(E?) CORRECTION | 11/3/1959 | See Source »

...Fulbright and the French Government Grant Application and the Fulbright Travel Grant. For the French Government Grant though I need a study project. Something recondite," he calculated. "The influence of Provence on French symbolist poetry," he decided. "Il pleure dans mon coeur com-me il pleut sur le village," he recalled from an old course in French literature, "but of course it doesn't rain in Provence." Vag remembered he would need a language recommendation for his French fellowship. He thought of M. Plombier, his French A section man. He had gotten a C- in the course, "mais alors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Form of Travel | 10/31/1959 | See Source »

...pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville. Quelle est cette langueur Qui pénétre mon coeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...Steinert '22, Pianoforte. Canzonetta from the second concerto Tchaikowsky On Wings of Song Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholody Waltz in A Major F. Brahms H. E. Scott '22, Violin. R. S. Childe '22, Accompanist. Ebb on with me M. Smith '20 The Broken Field M. Smith '20 II pleut document sur la ville G. McC. Newell Sp. The Prayer G. McC. Newell Sp. The Oak Tree Edward Ballantine Love's Creed Edward Ballantine J. F. Lautner ocC., Tenor. R. S. Childe '22, Accompanist. Rhapsody F. Brahms Waltz G. McC. Newell Sp. W. T. Ames '24, Pianoforte. String quartette Interludium in Modo Antico...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSICAL CLUB HOLDS ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT | 5/3/1922 | See Source »

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