s'ennui

Updated: May 27, 2025

What can this strange policy tend to, that thus exposes to ruin and want a girl of one-and-twenty not for any open violation of the law, but merely for her religious opinions; and this, too, in a country which professes toleration as the basis of its government? My friend, Mad. de s'ennui terribly; she is not incapable of amusing herself, but is here deprived of the means.

An English Lady - A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete: Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General: and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

An earlier victim from Gaul thus records his experience of Ranelagh: 'On s'ennui avec de la mauvaise musique, du thé et du beurre. So true is it that the cheerfulness you find anywhere is the cheerfulness you have brought with you. However, despite the Frenchman, good music and singing were at times to be heard at Ranelagh.

Augustine Birrell - In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays

What can this strange policy tend to, that thus exposes to ruin and want a girl of one-and-twenty not for any open violation of the law, but merely for her religious opinions; and this, too, in a country which professes toleration as the basis of its government? My friend, Mad. de s'ennui terribly; she is not incapable of amusing herself, but is here deprived of the means.

An English Lady - A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793: Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General: and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners