galanterie

In all commissions, whether from men or women, point de galanterie, bring them in your account, and be paid to the uttermost farthing; but if you would show them une galanterie, let your present be of something that is not in your commission, otherwise you will be the Commissionaire banal of all the women of Saxony.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Her tone, however, did not vary, and she preached la belle galanterie to some who went a little beyond it.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

He delighted in discussing social questions with a comrade to whom he did not need to show the _galanterie d'epiderme_ necessary in conversation with ordinary women.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

"Ah, _mon ami_;" she said, "I expected not to find here _une telle galanterie_."

The Inn at the Red Oak Latta Griswold

She resolved to cast aside reflection, to dry her tears, and she took a thick folio volume placed upon a table inlaid with enamel and medallions; it was the 'Astree' of M. d'Urfe -- a work 'de belle galanterie' adored by the fair prudes of the court.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

This was the beginning of the decadence which finally, in some places, reached the point where chansons de galanterie, or love songs, were completely transformed into cantiques, or religious songs, by merely substituting the name of the Blessed Virgin or that of Jesus Christ, for the name of the beloved one mentioned in the original.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The usual rather American-looking, clean-shaven, slightly pasty young man left Alvina quite cold, though he had an amiable and truly chivalrous _galanterie_.

The Lost Girl 1907

I also, before going to bid him adieu, had written him what I thought was a charming letter, congratulating him on the "galanterie de ses troupes."

The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 Edward Gleichen 1900

At last, in answer to her allusions to knights of old and _la galanterie_, the old lord could only say: '_L'amour est comme l'hirondelle; quand l'heure sonne, en dépit du danger, tous les deux partent pour les rivages célestes.

Muslin 1892

Rose Keller -- last of grisettes, but a grisette of the Upper House, an artist grisette, and, as some one calls her, the "soeur de charité de la galanterie" [529] -- is quite nice in hers.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889