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Updated: May 2, 2025
Now that Debonnairete of the Painted Chamber of Westminster is the typical figure used by the French sculptors and painters for 'franchise, frankness, or Frenchness; but in the Painted Chamber, Debonnairete, high breeding, 'out of goodnestedness, or gentleness, is used, as an English king's English, of the Norman franchise.
Here, then, is our own royalty, let us call it Englishness, the grace of our proper kinghood; and here is French royalty, the grace of French kinghood Frenchness, rudely but sufficiently drawn by M. Didron from the porch of Chartres. She has the crown of fleur-de- lys, and William the Norman's shield.
Uncle'd married a French young 'ooman as was dressmakin' and had been a lady's maid; it's along of his mother that he gets his Frenchness, you see. He was an only son, he was, and they made a lot of him dressin' him fine, and coddlin' him, and sendin' him to school like anythink. Uncle was doin' a big trade, you see, and makin' money fast.
Gothic architecture was eminently a product of the Isle de France. "France not only led," says Mr. Lethaby, "but invented. In a very true sense what we call Gothic is Frenchness of the France which had its centre in Paris." The thirteenth century rivals the finest period of Greek art for purity, simplicity, nobility and accurate science of construction.
"Your bottle is empty," he added; "I'll order another. Friend's a Frenchman, eh?" "That he is and doesn't understand his own language either," answered Uncle Ben, in a voice indicating that that lack of comprehension rather intensified his friend's Frenchness than otherwise.
"Come late tomorrow: I must explain to you. Ellen." These were the only words it contained. The young man, who was dining out, thrust the note into his pocket, smiling a little at the Frenchness of the "to you." After dinner he went to a play; and it was not until his return home, after midnight, that he drew Madame Olenska's missive out again and re-read it slowly a number of times.
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