Buisson

[ bwee-sohn ]

/ bwiˈsõʊ̃ /

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Fer·di·nand É·douard

[fer-dee-nahney-dwar], /fɛr diˈnɑ̃ eɪˈdwær/, 1841–1932, French statesman and educator: Nobel Peace Prize 1927.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Thus, you had warned M. Buisson that he might have to go to Bellevue and spend the night there?
My Memoirs|Marguerite Steinheil
But that night she had of course to await M. Buisson's arrival.
My Memoirs|Marguerite Steinheil
They went down to the fields, strewn with clumps of trees, and at the end of which was the little wood called Joli-Buisson.
The Prussian Terror|Alexandre Dumas
He brought two of Buisson's coats and all his finest linen He brought his pretty gold toilet-set,—a present from his mother.
Eugenie Grandet|Honore de Balzac

The concierge had recognized the visitor as Armand Buisson, of the police bureau at Nice.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo|William Le Queux