courtoisie

The songs, the games, and the dances do not concern us, but the dialogue runs along prettily, with an air of Flemish realism, like a picture of Teniers, as unlike that of "courtoisie" as Teniers was to Guido Reni.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

He had hurled more powerful foes than the Swiss from the saddle, and from knightly "courtoisie" not even used his strength without consideration.

In the Fire of the Forge — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

He had hurled more powerful foes than the Swiss from the saddle, and from knightly "courtoisie" not even used his strength without consideration.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

He had hurled more powerful foes than the Swiss from the saddle, and from knightly "courtoisie" not even used his strength without consideration.

In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

He strove to refashion the French court according to Italian examples, where the art of conversation and rules of courtoisie ruled supreme.

Will the Real François Please Stand Up? Julianne Douglas 2008

He strove to refashion the French court according to Italian examples, where the art of conversation and rules of courtoisie ruled supreme.

Archive 2008-02-01 Julianne Douglas 2008

Funny - back when I was living in France and then made a short trip home, I noticed that most Germans were dressing like slobs, being painfully indiscreet, talking and, above all,laughing! way too loud - on the other hand, service in stores just seemed very casually friendly when compared to the intricately impersonal French courtoisie...

Observations from the States C N Heidelberg 2008

_Questions d'Autriche-Hongrie_, pp. 176-178: "Quant à l'Autriche, nos rapports avec elle ont toujours été bons; ils ont été pleins, non seulement de courtoisie, mais de quelque chose de plus; parceque l'Autriche sait que, de toutes les puissances européennes, la France est la dernière qui pourrait souhaiter que l'Empire d'Autriche, garantie nécessaire de l'équilibre européen, se brisat et disparût pour le malheur de l'Europe."

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

German camp, through the Provençal code of _courtoisie_, up to the modern law of fine manners, the drudge and chattel of the primeval tribe has risen to impose her law upon the modern world.

Apologia Diffidentis 1905

But the school of _courtoisie_ prevailed; the most celebrated of the troubadours are mundane, not to say profane; Walther von der

Medieval Europe 1901