What is "joie"

Usage examples of "joie".

Colombe de Gaillefontaine, le releva rayonnant de joie et de fierté, et le fixa de nouveau sur Phoebus.

Her name was Nella, and she had been one of the most famous filks de joie in the colony.

Madame Mathias, Madame Mathias, que ne donnerais-je point pour vous revoir telle que vous futes, ou du moins pour savoir ce que vous etes devenue, depuis trente ans que vous avez quitte ce monde ou vous aviez si peu de joie, ou vous teniez si peu de place et que vous aimiez tant.

Je ne vivrais pas tranquille de savoir ce mauvais lutin semer sa joie panique dans les couloirs de mon palais.

The ascending movement of her arms at the moment she missed the projectile, although it had the added advantage of pushing forward the two ochraceous globes constituting an already more than nascent bosom, was principally accompanied by a smile at once amused and disconsolate, ultimately replete with an intense joie de vivre, which she was manifestly directing at all the adolescent males passing within a radius of fifty metres.

I am very grateful to Rene Alegria, my editor at Rayo, so aptly named, for his unbridled enthusiasm and joie de vivre, which made writing this novel so much fun.

Les bouquinistes au XVIIIe siecle reconquirent le parapet pour la joie des curieux.

But I saw you doing your crossword puzzle, and I let my whaddayacallit, my joie de vivre, get the better of me, and the next thing I know, I'm spending a whole lot more money than I should on your new book.

Now we know that the closet key is on the wrong side of the door, and that our fille de joie went to the theater with one of her favorite inamorati, who presumably brought her home shortly before she took her departure from this wicked world.

She thought of the capricious joie de vivre of the pine marten, its innocence and its complete absorption in the business of being itself, and realised quite suddenly that she had exchanged the carelessness of youth for something very like unhappiness.

If she just put her mind to it she could be plucky, she could have joie de vivre—.

The last, surely, was pure joie de vivre, as was David's refusal to leave the hotelnow their hotelfor dinner.

He soared round the whole thing with bursting joie de vivre, even to the extent of passing the favourite on the run-in, and we came back to bear hugs from the blue hair (for the benefit of television) and an offer to me of a spare ride in the fifth race, from a worried-looking small-time trainer.