affaire

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She was again named best supporting actress in 1982 and best actress the following year for Une étrange affaire and La Balance.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

“La vérité sur cette affaire est cruelle,” he said—“the truth is cruel.”

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

If a non-affaire affaire can elicit this degree of discontent, people are already deeply unhappy, looking for a reason to vent.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2018

En 2007, un tribunal donna raison à Mme Bazzini, une affaire décrite par Jules B. Farber dans le livre “James Baldwin: Escape From America, Exile in Provence.”

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2017

So great an interest did she take in the carrying out of this reform, that she always used to refer to it as "la grande affaire."

From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling