{"id":4373,"date":"2011-03-15T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T16:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2017-10-19T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T11:15:49","slug":"femme-comme-woman-as-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/femme-comme-woman-as-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Femme, comme&#8230; (Woman as in&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/tag\/ocean-13\/\">French Blog<\/a>, <em>l<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>es femmes<\/strong><\/em> (women) are <strong><em>toujours \u00e0 l&#8217;honneur <\/em><\/strong>(still honored), even a week after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/%e2%99%80-et-apres-la-journee-des-femmes-and-after-womens-day-%e2%99%80\/\"><strong><em>le 8 mars <\/em><\/strong>(8th of March.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, we will go through several case examples where the French word\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/femmes-je-vous-aime-women-i-love-you\/\">femme <\/a><\/em><\/strong>(woman) can be encountered. Femme, as in&#8230;\u00a0<em>la Femme Nikita<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>* * * <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>* <em>Femme, comme&#8230;<\/em> (Woman, as in&#8230;):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Une jeune femme<\/span><\/strong><\/em><strong>:<\/strong> a\u00a0<strong>young woman<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Une jolie <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>femme<\/strong><\/em><\/span><strong>:<\/strong> a <strong>beautiful woman<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Une vieille femme:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> an <strong>old woman<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Une femme m\u00fbre<\/strong><\/em><strong>: <\/strong><\/span>a <strong>mature woman<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Une bonne femme<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: literally meaning a &#8220;<strong>good woman<\/strong>.&#8221; Not necessarily meant derogatorily, it has often the same meaning as you would say in English &#8220;some (random) woman&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Une future femme<\/span><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">:<\/span><\/strong> no, it&#8217;s not a woman who comes from the future (which otherwise would be called &#8220;<strong><em>une femme du futur<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em>&#8220;) It actually\u00a0means a &#8220;<strong>wife-to-be<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La femme est l&#039;avenir de l&#039;homme\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MZ8d1WY27RI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The now defunct singer Jean Ferrat (he died exactly a year ago, almost day for day) rendered the <em>maxime<\/em> of his &#8220;<em>camarade en chef&#8221; <\/em>(&#8220;comrade in chief&#8221;) and &#8220;<em>homme engag\u00e9<\/em>&#8221; (think &#8220;mild to hot&#8221; Stalinism&#8230;) Louis Aragon into a song: &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>la femme est l&#8217;avenir de l&#8217;homme<\/em><\/span>&#8221; (&#8220;Woman is the future of man&#8221;)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Or would it not be better said as &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wo<\/span>man is the future wooing of man&#8221;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Une sage-femme<\/span><\/em><\/strong>: literally a &#8220;wise woman&#8221;, meaning a <strong>midwife<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Une femme m\u00e9decin<\/strong><\/em><strong>:<\/strong><\/span> a\u00a0lady doctor, as in &#8220;<em><strong>Docteur Quinn, femme m\u00e9decin&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><strong>(&#8220;Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman&#8221;)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Une femme fatale<\/strong><\/em><\/span><strong>: <\/strong>is what one would call <strong>&#8220;<em>un\u00a0personnage type<\/em>&#8221; (a stock character)<\/strong>, and\u00a0carries the same meaning in English<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Docteur Quinn femme m\u00e9decin (G\u00e9n\u00e9rique)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ig-HrNH1pVA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Docteur Quinn, femme m\u00e9decin&#8221;<\/em> (&#8220;Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman&#8221;), a considerably successful American series aired on French TV (broadcasting began in 1993), starring &#8220;Jane Seymour&#8221;, the English-born\u00a0<em>actrice<\/em> (actress) who portrayed the Queen of France, Marie-Antoinette, in the 1989 bicentennial commemorative movie &#8220;<em>La <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/le-14-juillet-and-les-3-suisses\/\">R\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise<\/a><\/em>&#8220;, <\/strong><strong>and later a &#8220;call-me-Kitty-Kat&#8221; <em>femme fatale<\/em> -yet another role in which she &#8220;loses her head&#8221;, so to speak- in the less highbrow comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/tag\/films-celebres\/\">&#8220;<em>Serial noceurs<\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;Wedding Crashers&#8221;)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Femme de lettre, <\/strong><\/em>or <\/span><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">femme \u00e9crivain<\/span>: <\/strong><\/em><strong>woman writer<\/strong>,\u00a0such as\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/lame-des-poetes-the-soul-of-poets\/\">George Sand<\/a><\/strong>, or <strong><em>beaucoup plus pr\u00e8s de nous <\/em><\/strong>(much closer to us), the\u00a0late<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/une-grande-romanciere-mere-et-grand-mere-a-grand-author-mother-and-grandmother\/\"> <strong>Andr\u00e9e Chedid<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Une femme d&#8217;affaires:<\/strong><\/span> <\/em><strong>business woman<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Une femme de chambre<\/em><\/span>: <\/strong>like<strong> &#8220;<em>une\u00a0femme de m\u00e9nage<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong>, is a\u00a0<strong>chambermaid<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Une femme au foyer:<\/em><\/span><\/strong> a <strong>housewife <\/strong>(and, for Heaven&#8217;s sake, she needs not be so &#8220;desperate&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">L&#8217;\u00e9cole des femmes<\/span>&#8220;: <\/strong><\/em><strong>(<\/strong>&#8220;The School for Wives&#8221;<\/strong>) is one of the most famous\u00a0works of comedy by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/1st-part-jean-baptiste-lully-and-the-baptism-of-lopera-francais-italian-godfather-style\/\">Moli\u00e8re<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJKeh3OXxWg\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJKeh3OXxWg<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Une femme est une femme&#8221;<\/span>: <\/strong><\/em><strong>(&#8220;A Woman is a Woman&#8221;)\u00a0is the title\u00a0of a well-known 1961\u00a0Jean-Louis Godard <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/le-cinema-francais\/\">movie<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"216\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/145227-1-216x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/145227-1-216x350.jpg 216w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/145227-1.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><p>In the French Blog, les femmes (women) are toujours \u00e0 l&#8217;honneur (still honored), even a week after\u00a0le 8 mars (8th of March.) Today, we will go through several case examples where the French word\u00a0femme (woman) can be encountered. Femme, as in&#8230;\u00a0la Femme Nikita * * * * Femme, comme&#8230; (Woman, as in&#8230;): Une jeune femme&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/femme-comme-woman-as-in\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":23835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,108,13],"tags":[24462,24489,13695,24478,24486,24472,24459,24493,24490,24476,24492,24482,24491,24475,24487,24480,24481,12569,24473,24488,24483,24477,24474,24484,9117,9642,24485,24494,24479],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-music","category-vocabulary","tag-8-mars","tag-actrice","tag-andree-chedid","tag-bonne-femme","tag-dr-quinn","tag-ecole-des-femmes","tag-femme","tag-femme-au-foyer","tag-femme-daffaires","tag-femme-de-chambre","tag-femme-de-lettre","tag-femme-du-futur","tag-femme-ecrivain","tag-femme-fatale","tag-femme-medecin","tag-femme-mure","tag-future-femme","tag-george-sand","tag-godard","tag-jane-seymour","tag-jean-ferrat","tag-jeune-femme","tag-la-femme-nikita","tag-louis-aragon","tag-moliere","tag-revolution-francaise","tag-sage-femme","tag-une-femme-est-une-femme","tag-vieille-femme"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the French Blog, les femmes (women) are toujours \u00e0 l&#039;honneur (still honored), even a week after le 8 mars (8th of March.) 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