>> 'Pour Encourager les Autres' is exceptionally pretentious and in no way analogous with typical UK
>> regional sayings or phrases.
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It surely ranks with Cherchez la femme, plus ca change, a la carte, au contraire, je ne sais quoi, etc. There are hundreds of French expressions used in English, many of them only used in English and unheard of in France.
RSVP or cul de sac for example.
Few of them are exactly everyday expressions by most people, but the majority I'd have said have a nodding familiarity.
Funnily enough the most pretentious of them all is known by everybody- Pretentious, moi?
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