[lit-ideas] Ecole Normale de Jeunes Filles (Was: Diary of a Public School Girl
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:43:28 EDT
So, it's normalienne. Palma, a male (the exception that _proves_ the rule)
should strictly be a 'normalien', though.
"Normalienne" (girl): a female student or fenake graduate from the École
Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles (founded 1881) at the Rue d'Ulm in Paris
--
with a gymnasium at Sevres.
Quotes:
1915 R. BOURNE Impressions of Europe in Columbia Univ. Q. Mar. 118
Young normaliennes, representing the suffrage movement, appeared at meetings
of all the parties.
1904 The Normaliennes shall be, together with the boursiers, students of
the University.
1926 _W. LEWIS_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-l.html#w-lewis)
Art of being Ruled XII. i. 379 She was dealing in
literature and forgetting the social revolution. She was a normalienne, an
amuser, a
dilettante, and so on.
1965 Economist 21 Aug. 709/2
It is difficult not to think sympathetically of Péguy..talking with visiting
provincial schoolmistresses..all good normaliennes together.
1999 Irish Times (Nexis) 20 July 10 Other famous normalienne include
Francois Mitterand's daughter, Ms Mazerine Pingeot.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Oct. 52/1 To become a normalienne was to be set up
for life as a member of the French intellectual elite.
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