"La ___ de Chaillot": Giraudoux

Usage examples of folle.

His pre-eminence in the latter faculty gave occasion to some etymologists to ring changes on his name, and to decide that it was derived from Follis Optimus, softened through an Italian medium into Folle Ottimo, contracted poetically into Folleotto, and elided Anglice into Folliott, signifying a firstrate pair of bellows.

Une de ces tours garde encore, sous les herbes folles et les fleurs sauvages, sa couronne de machicoulis.

Esisteva ancora qualcosa di ra­gionevole e qualcosa di folle, o erano tutti concetti privi di senso?