What M. can stand for

Usage examples of monsieur.

It was very plain from the embarrassed appearance of Monsieur how much the conversation of the king and Madame annoyed him.

General Bonaparte had been near a month at Passeriano when he received the following autograph letter from the Emperor of Austria: TO MONSIEUR LE GENERAL BONAPARTE, GENERAL-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF ITALY.

Puis, sentant la colere le gagner alors que la colere lui etait defendue, il renvoya Sixte: --Allez faire votre besogne, monsieur.

She reminded herself that she was an abandoned lover of Monsieur Bourreau, here to beg him to take her back.

I came to offer it to Monsieur Bourreau, as he was recommended to me as a collector of such items.

Grace, a Monsieur Bourreau has arrived and requests a moment of your time.

He is born and bred and made for the cattle-droving trade, And they call him Monsieur Bouvier de Brie.

Monsieur le Vicomte Bouvier de Brie--a Marshal of Bulls whom he controlled in the stony pastures near the cottage.

Then I return to my lost world--to the whistling, dry-leaved, thin oaks that are not these giant ones--to the stony little hillsides and treacherous river-pits that are not these secure pastures--to the sharp scents that are not these scents--to the companionship of poor Pluton and Dis--to the Street of the Fountain up which marches to meet me, as when I was a rude little puppy, my friend, my protector, my earliest adoration, Monsieur le Vicomte Bouvier de Brie.

His homily led off with such fulsome praise of Monsieur, that, from that day forward, he lost all his credit, and sensible people thereafter only looked upon him as a vile sycophant, a mere dealer in flattery and fairy-tales.

Monsieur Voigt, let you and me be two men of Marseilles, and allons, marchons, arm-in-arm!

That quarrel was in full swing when we reached here and we were discussing the way to end it most promptly when monsieur le marechal entered the garden.

The grapes have been stolen and eaten by some domestic, and if the servant has not been sick it is simply that the grapes monsieur le marechal brought escaped the spraying of the Bordeaux mixture.

Monsieur le Marechal had no particular good news, evidently, for in terms quite without enthusiasm he invited the young man to luncheon for that same day, rather early, at midday, as he wished to see him once more before he left for France.

Monsieur le Grand Marechal, for I shall not inconvenience Monsieur Koupriane any further, nor anybody else.