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   What does Amour Fou mean?

   • A borrowing from French, the phrase amour fou, literally mad love, denotes uncontrollable or obsessive passion or infatuation. It was introduced into English as a theme of drama, prose narrative and cinema. In French, the phrase occurs, for example, in Les Amours d’un interne (Paris: E. Dentu, 1881), by the French author Jules Claretie (1840-1913):

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   When did the phrase 'Amour Fou' come out?

   • The first mentions of the French phrase in English refer to L’Amour fou ou La Première surprise, the title of a comedy by the French playwright André Roussin (1911-1987), first produced at the Théâtre de la Madeleine (Paris, France) on 24th September 1955:

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   Where does the phrase 'I'd like L'amour fou' come from?

   • The phrase then occurs in Fete ( New York: Albert A. Knopf, Inc., 1961), the translation by Peter Wiles of La Fête (Paris: Gallimard, 1960), a novel by the French author Roger Vailland (1907-1965)—this is an extract from Fete: “I’d like l’amour fou.”“That’s all right by me,” said Léone, “if it’s useful to you. I hope you will find l’amour fou.

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   Jul 14, 2020 · A borrowing from French, the phrase amour fou, literally mad love, denotes uncontrollable or obsessive passion or infatuation. It was introduced into English as a theme of drama, prose narrative and cinema. In French, the phrase occurs, for example, in Les Amours d’un interne (Paris: E. Dentu, 1881), by the French author Jules Claretie (1840 ...

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   l'amour fou translation in French - English Reverso dictionary, see also 'déclaration d'amour, film d'amour, mariage d'amour, roman d'amour', examples, definition, conjugation.

   L'amour,	Love,
   faire l'amour	to make love
   l'amour filial	filial love
   l'amour fraternel	brotherly love
   l'amour	love

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   nm love story. Translation French - English Collins Dictionary. See also: "amour fou": examples and translations in context. La peinture, c'est l'extrême, l' amour fou. Painting is the extreme, crazy love. Ils parlent d' amour fou, quand il s'agit de vous... They're talking about crazy love, when they talk about you...

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   In l'Amour fou Breton recalls their walk [...] through the night, naming it "the Night of the Sunflower", the title of the 1923 premonitory poem where he had imagined a similar encounter with a mysterious woman.

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   The meaning of AMOUR FOU is mad love : obsessive passion.

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   What does the noun amour fou mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun amour fou . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   Translations in context of "amour fou" in French-English from Reverso Context: La peinture, c'est l'extrême, l'amour fou.