Jacques

American  

[zhahk] / ʒɑk /

noun

1. a male given name, French form of Jacob or James.

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Example Sentences

On Dec. 15, the European Union added Jacques Baud, a retired Swiss army colonel and former intelligence analyst who lives in Brussels, to its sanctions list.

From The Wall Street Journal

After edging Neser over the slips on 94, he drove the same bowler down the ground to join Australia great Ricky Ponting on 41 Test tons - only India's Sachin Tendulkar and South Africa's Jacques Kallis have more.

From BBC

The French couple who own the bar - named by the media as Jacques and Jessica Moretti - are suspected of manslaughter by negligence, bodily harm by negligence and arson by negligence, the prosecutors' office for the Valais region said.

From BBC

Such was the breadth of Hawks’s work that it’s difficult to make an overarching statement about it, but French director Jacques Rivette summed it up beautifully: “If he has brought nobility to every genre, then it is because, in each case, he has found that particular genre’s essential quality and grandeur, and blended his personal themes with those the American tradition had already made rich and profound.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Newly declassified papers show officials refused to release details of a conversation between Blair and French president Jacques Chirac following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in Paris in 1997.

From BBC