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

One was Emile Amélineau, who headed up excavations at Abydos at the turn of the century.

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Valor – Actor Emile Hirsch chose this upstanding name for his son.

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This kind of combat reached its apotheosis when the guest was an insurance swindler called Emile Savundra.

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Movies about literary lions and lionesses—The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and Out of Africa (1985)—took home the gold statue.

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“What his enemies say may be true,” the filmmaker Emile de Antonio once reflected.

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She was intimate with a prefect of Orne, who was the natural father of Emile Blondet.

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Distant ties bound her to the Troisville family, and it was to them that she sent Emile, her favored son.

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In 1821 Emile Blondet was a remarkably handsome young fellow.

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"Emile is as anglomane as ever, and not a bit less a Frenchman," Weyburn said, in a tone of one who muffles a shock at the heart.

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Emile, after having confided the two ladies to the care of the Guarani, had left the tambo, oppressed by a sad apprehension.

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