Thursday, December 01, 2005

Bagatelle

Une bagatelle (pronounced as it's written) can mean different things:
  • a thing of no importance, a triviality. E.g. bagatelle! = nonsense!
  • something of little value. E.g. je lui ai acheté une bagatelle = I bought him a little something
  • a sum of money. E.g. il a gagné la bagatelle de 70 millions = he won the trifling sum of 70 millions
  • the name of a parc in Neuilly, near Paris, the result of a bet between Marie-Antoinette and the count of Artois who owned the land and had the parc created in sixty-four days
  • The title of a song by Feench singers Yann Tiersen and Dominique A.

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