Crossword clues for monsieur
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monsieur \Mon*sieur"\, n.; pl. Messieurs. [F., fr. mon my + Sieur, abbrev. of seigneur lord. See Monseigneur.]
The common title of civility in France in speaking to, or of, a man; Mr. or Sir. [Represented by the abbreviation M. or Mons. in the singular, and by MM. or Messrs. in the plural.]
The oldest brother of the king of France.
A Frenchman. [Contemptuous]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, from French monsieur, from mon sieur "my lord," from sieur "lord," shortened form of seigneur (see monseigneur) It was the historical title for the second son or next younger brother of the king of France.
Wikipedia
(; pl. ; 1512, from Middle French mon sieur, literally "my lord") is an honorific title that used to refer to or address the eldest living brother of the king in the French royal court. It has now become the customary French title of respect and term of address for a French-speaking man, corresponding to such English titles as Mr. or sir.
"Monsieur" was the Luxembourgish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, performed in French by Park Café, a six-piece band fronted by American singer Maggie Parke.
The song is an up-tempo number, with the lead singer describing a man who "lives in a dream" (or even "in Tooneland", according to the backing vocals) and believes that he will make it big in Hollywood. She sings, further, that "I believe/that I'm his star", seemingly regardless of the success he might enjoy.
The song was performed eleventh on the night, following Sweden's Tommy Nilsson with " En dag" and preceding Denmark's Birthe Kjær with " Vi maler byen rød". At the close of voting, it had received 8 points, placing 20th in a field of 22.
It was succeeded as Luxembourgish representative at the 1990 Contest by Céline Carzo with " Quand je te rêve".
Monsieur, published in 1974 and sub-titled The Prince of Darkness, is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's The Avignon Quintet. As a group, the five novels narrate the lives of a group of Europeans prior to and after World War II. Monsieur begins the quincunx of novels with a metafictional narrative in five major sections, each with a competing narrator. The novel does not resolve which narrative is 'real' and which are 'fiction.'
The novel draws extensively on Gnosticism but was published prior to the English release of the Nag Hammadi library. Durrell is referred to in the English edition of the Nag Hammadi, but this is largely in relation to his The Alexandria Quartet. The Gnostic materials in Monsieur combine Serge Hutin's Les Gnostiques with contemporary newspaper reports of a Slovenian suicide cult. This has led to much scholarly and popular confusion over the sources for Durrell's Gnostic suicide cult, which is a plot throughout the rest of the Avignon Quintet.
The term Monsieur may refer to
- Monsieur, a honorific title
- Monsieur (novel), a novel by Lawrence Durrell
- Monsieur (song), a song from the Eurovision Song Contest 1989
- Monsieur, a 1962 #1 song by Petula Clark
- Monsieur, a 1964 film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois
- Monsieur, a 1990 film directed by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Monsieur is a 1990 comedy film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. It was directed by the novel's author and produced by Pascal Judelewicz and Anne-Dominique Toussaint. The film starred Dominic Gould, Wojciech Pszoniak, and Eva Ionesco. Monsieur was screened at the 1990 Toronto International Film Festival. It received the André Cavens Award for Best Film given by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC).
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.