francophile

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Of this francophile feeling of the eighteenth century Selwyn was the most remarkable example.

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  • During the war, he was sanctionned and transferred to northern francophile by a German military court. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • This is for the French Finds Write Off for my good friend Barbara (Ifif1938), a francophile. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • An unlikely cocktail of Michel Houellebecq and Jelly Roll Morton is the inspiration for Stooges legend's new francophile album, —  Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
  • Lifelong francophile attempting to describe my ongoing discovery of Paris and the French world wherever I am. —  Polly-Vous Francais?
  • The most radical songwriter of that era was of course Cole Porter, not an immigrant but a francophile emigrant, who often enough wrote up to the limits of what was possible and even regularly overstepped those limits as for example in "Its All Right With Me" (1953): —  Expecting Rain
 

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