Émile

[ French ey-meel ]

noun

1. a didactic novel (1762) by J. J. Rousseau, dealing principally with the author's theories of education.

Émile

1. A work on education by Jean Jacques Rousseau , describing how a fictional boy, Émile, should be brought up. The book had an enormous influence on education during the age of romanticism and afterward.

Example Sentences

Germinal by Émile Zola My favorite reportorial 19th-century novel.

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Translated and adapted from Émile Durkheim, La division du travail social, pp. 24-209.

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He had the added merit of maintaining, after Beaumarchais and before Émile Augier, the dignity of high comedy.

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He is M. Émile Bocardon, proprietor of the Hôtel de la Curatterie.

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Accused of inciting to pillage, Louise Michel and Émile Pouget were condemned to several years' imprisonment.

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A fortnight after this conversation took place, Madame Émile de Girardin died.

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