feuilles

Updated: June 19, 2025

Such passages are to be found among the lyrics of Les Feuilles d'Automne, Les Rayons et Les Ombres, Les Contemplations, in the brilliant descriptions and lofty imagery of La Légende des Siècles, in the burning invective of Les Châtiments.

Lytton Strachey - Landmarks in French Literature

The slips of paper which are then given out are called feuilles de permission, and the lucky soldier is called a permissionnaire.

Henry Beston - A Volunteer Poilu

Deja au mois de fevrier les arbustes poussaient des feuilles. Dieu veuille que cette douce chaleur de l'annee vous rende bientot a la sante et a la Normandie. As to France, I say nothing; for, after all, she has the chances of success, which will smooth away many apparent difficulties. But the peace of Europe depends on Germany and on England. Shall we succeed in maintaining it?

John Knox Laughton - Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. : In Two Volumes. Volume II.