Trope Names from the French

The tropes on this wiki that are named in Gratuitous French... or close enough.
Some may be bad French or mixed with English, and rarely bothered with the correct diacritics (accents) until the custom title system.

Important note: anytime you see " l' ", "le", "la" or "les", consider them as articles akin to "the", and DON'T list them under "L" in indexes.

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See also:

• France (Useful Notes)

• Agent Provocateur = troublemaker agent

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• Art Nouveau = new art ^note At least how the Anglophones and the French name the genre; other countries name it with something else such as "Jungendstil" or "secession"
• Art Deco = retroactively named after the 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts.
• The Chanteuse (la chanteuse) = the female singer
• Chez Restaurant = at the restaurant
• Cliché
• Les Collaborateurs = collaborators (with the enemy)
• Les Cops Sportif (la police sportive) = the athletic police^note This is Just for Pun on Le Coq Sportif, the sports equipment manufacturer.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef (cordon beurk) = blegh ribbon chef^note This is Just for Pun on cordon bleu, which means Supreme Chef in French.
• The Coup = shorthand for "coup d'État," colloquially "a blow against the State" or "putsch"
• Coup de Grâce = blow of mercy
  • Coup de Grâce Cutscene

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• Déjà Vu = already seen
• Dénouement = unknotting, unravelling
• Détournement (le détournement)
• Disposable Fiancé = "fiancé" (engaged, to be married) is a French word originally
• Double Entendre = double meaning
• Droit du Seigneur = right of the lord
• Enfant Terrible = terrible child^note Or "terrific child", but that wouldn't fit the trope.
• Fee Fi Faux Pas = fee fi false step
• Femme Fatale = deadly woman
• Femme Fatale Spy = only the first two words "femme fatale" are French.
• A Fête Worse Than Death = only "fête" ("party") is French.
• Fille Fatale = deadly girl
• Le Film Artistique = artistic film
• Film Noir = black film
• Fleur de Lis (fleur de lys) = flower of lily
• Grande Dame = big lady
• Grand Finale = big finale
• The Grotesque = gross and ridiculous at the same time
• Homage = tribute
• The Ingenue (l'ingénue) = naïve woman

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• J'accuse! = I accuse
• Jeanne d'Archétype = Joan of archetype^note pun on Joan of Arc
• Mal Mariée = badly married woman
• Mêlée à Trois = fray of three^note This is Just for Pun on ménage à trois, a.k.a. threesome.
• Military Coup (le coup d'État militaire)
• Montages = assemblies
• Moustache de Plume = quill mustache
• Nom de Guerre = war name
• Nom de Mom = mother's name
• Nouveau Riche = new rich
• Le Parkour
• Phlébotinum du Jour = phlebotinum of the day
• Portmanteau (le portemanteau) = coat hanger^note The trope isn't about coat hangers!
• The Renaissance = rebirth
• La Résistance = the resistance
• Reveille
• Roman à Clef = novel with key
• Tableau = painting / panel
• Thwarted Coup de Grâce
• Touché = touched / being hit
• Tree Buchet = trébuchet ^note Just for Pun with the English word "tree"
• Trouble Entendre
• Un-Entendre = one meaning

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Other French phrases:

• danse macabre = dance of death
• ménage à trois = couple of three
• princesse lointaine = faraway princess
• raisonneur = one who argues

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