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Then there is diseuse, apparently reserved for the lady who recites verse, no name being needed apparently for the gentleman who recites verse at least, I am reasonably certain that I have never seen diseur applied to any male reciter. Mise-en-scène is another of the French terms which has suffered a Channel-change.
Brett had disappeared. "No, Mr. Elliot, it's no use talking to me, not a bit of use!" Millie Deans exclaimed vehemently in the hall as Rades began Enigme in his most velvety voice. "London has no taste, it has only fashions. In Paris that man is not a singer at all. He is merely a diseur. No one would dream of putting him in a programme with me."
C.-B. Coquelin is personally most present to me, in the form of that hour, by the value, as we were to learn to put it, of this nose, the fine assurance and impudence of which fairly made it a trumpet for promises; yet in spite of that, the very gage, as it were, of his long career as the most interesting and many-sided comedian, or at least most unsurpassed dramatic diseur of his time, I failed to doubt that, with the rich recesses of the parental industry for his background, his subtlest identity was in his privilege, or perhaps even in his expertest trick, of helping himself well.
"That," replied he like a showman, "is the Honorable Grandmoulin, the National Liar, Premier Minister of the Province, and First Juggler of its finances: a profligate in public in the name of the Church in secret in the name of Free-Thought beau diseur demagogue of the rabble and chieftain of the Cave." "The Cave?" He lifted his glass of ruby liquid and faced me across it.
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