faiseur

Balzac's dramas, as they appear in his works, consist of _Vautrin, Les Ressources de Quinola, Paméla Giraud_ (arranged for the stage by others), _La Marâtre_ and _Mercadet le faiseur_, the last of which has, since his death, been not unsuccessful.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

The protesting dame wished to take this opportunity to say that everybody knew her ancestry, whereas that of her critic was uncertain, adding, to prove that Worth had equipped her in her unmarried state, she was prepared to show the receipted bills of the great faiseur.

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

"Encore un faiseur de paradoxes!" murmured Faubourg to himself in disgust.

Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches Maurice Baring 1909

Il n'est point un simple faiseur de formes et de figures dans une matiere preexistante; il a fait et la matiere et la forme, c'est - ` a-dire son ouvrage dans son tout: autrement son ouvrage ne lui doit pas tout, et dans son fond il est independamment de son ouvrier ....

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

Il n'est point un simple faiseur de formes et de figures dans une matiere preexistante; il a fait et la matiere et la forme, c'est - ` a-dire son ouvrage dans son tout: autrement son ouvrage ne lui doit pas tout, et dans son fond il est independamment de son ouvrier ....

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

Buffet, it was whispered, was a purveyor of kitsch, a mere faiseur (poser).

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"perhaps, after all, _we_ are simply a _faiseur_, -- using the word, be it understood, in the sense of a meddler, one who wants to have his finger in everything."

The Deputy of Arcis Honor�� de Balzac 1824