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- actors did not like Lesage, and refused a small piece of his called Les Étrennes (1707). He thereupon altered it into Turcaret (1709), considered his theatrical...
- both French and Latin. Rimbaud's first poem to appear in print was "Les Étrennes des orphelins" ("The Orphans' New Year's Gifts"), which was published in...
- Strenia was said to be the origin of the word strenae (preserved in French étrennes and Italian strenne), the new-year gifts Romans exchanged as good omens...
- Université de Saint-Etienne. ISBN 2862723940. Hirschbiegel, Jan (2014). Étrennes: Untersuchungen zum höfischen Geschenkverkehr im spätmittelalterlichen...
- organized a charity to give Christmas gifts to poor children (L'Oeuvre des étrennes aux enfants pauvres). A front-page illustration on December 3, 1904, issue...
- Quinault. He made witty but by no means edifying contributions to the Étrennes de Saint-Jean, the Bals de Bois, etc. In 1744, he produced the Ménages...
- Philippe-Sirice (1814). Le Conservateur Suisse, ou Recueil complet des etrennes helvetiennes. Vol. 4. L. Knab. p. 163. Wyss (1817a), p. 424. Bibliography...
- Contemporary do****ents identify the statuette as a New Year's gift—an étrennes—a Roman custom Charles revived to establish rank and alliances during the...
- credited with contributions to the collection of facetiae known as the Etrennes de la Saint Jean (2nd ed., 1742). Four volumes of Memoires de Maurepas...
- religions 213 1996 3. p. 285. Macrobius I 10, 16. E. and A. L. Prosdocimi in Etrennes M. Lejeune Paris 1978 pp. 199–207 identify him as an aspect of Jupiter...