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    The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the...
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    Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ("6th edition"), Paris, 1835 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ("7th edition"), Paris, 1879 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française...
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    more pretentious premises". The etymology is unclear. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates the word from the 19th century term, bistro, "innkeeper"...
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    medieval times the dish was referred to as an estouffet. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates the term cassoulet to no earlier than the 19th century...
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    fat, vegetables, herbs, spices, wine and brandy. Both the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) date the term back...
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  • honourable behaviour; privilege entails responsibility." The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française defines it thus: Whoever claims to be noble must conduct...
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    French cake or quick bread. Its ingredients, according to Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (1694), were "rye flour, honey and spices". In Alsace, a...
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    " Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française (1762) Archived 28 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine Encyclopedie; Lettre sur la Musique Française under...
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    p. 2. Dictionnaire de l'académie françoise (4th ed.). Paris, France: Institut de France. 1762. p. 177. Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (6th ed...
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    magazine has termed it the national dish of France. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates the term pot-au-feu to the 17th century. In 1600 the...
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