All 18 Uses of
Monsieur
in
The Age of Innocence
- It amused Newland Archer (who had secretly situated the love-scenes of "Monsieur de Camors" in Mrs. Mingott's bedroom) to picture her blameless life led in the stage-setting of adultery; but he said to himself, with considerable admiration, that if a lover had been what she wanted, the intrepid woman would have had him too.†
Chpt 4 *
- "You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence?†
Chpt 20
- "Voyez-vous, Monsieur, to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?†
Chpt 20
- The young man stood looking about him with the dazed air of the foreigner flung upon the harsh mercies of American travel; then he advanced toward Archer, lifted his hat, and said in English: "Surely, Monsieur, we met in London?"†
Chpt 25
- "I wonder, Monsieur, since I've had the good luck to run across you, if I might—"†
Chpt 25
- Not to YOU, Monsieur.†
Chpt 25
- You can help, Monsieur, I am convinced, to make it equally a failure with her family.†
Chpt 25
- Oh, Monsieur—†
Chpt 25
- The arguments I want to present to you, Monsieur, are my own and not those I was sent over with.†
Chpt 25
- Monsieur—will you tell me one thing?†
Chpt 25
- "Don't you know, Monsieur—is it possible you don't know—that the family begin to doubt if they have the right to advise the Countess to refuse her husband's last proposals?"†
Chpt 25
- "To beg you, Monsieur—to beg you with all the force I'm capable of—not to let her go back.†
Chpt 25
- No, Monsieur: I accepted my mission in good faith.†
Chpt 25
- Ah, Monsieur, after I had seen her, after I had listened to her, I knew she was better off here.†
Chpt 25
- "Monsieur, I discharged my mission faithfully: I put the Count's arguments, I stated his offers, without adding any comment of my own.†
Chpt 25
- Ah, Monsieur, if I could tell you!†
Chpt 25
- "There's nothing to thank me for, Monsieur: it is I, rather—"†
Chpt 25
- That's all, Monsieur."†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(Monsieur) French equivalent to the English Mr.
or:
French equivalent to saying sir in English (a polite way to address a male)