We know that our political sphere is healthy when, first, everyone who wants to be a "participant in government" can in fact have access to it; and second, when the talk that takes place there is viewed not as mere bavardage or spin, but as one of the chief and most valuable expressions of public liberty. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)
The dame before me is chatting with the bouchère about tout et rien until I clear my throat, at which point she pauses, only to continue her bavardage. ❋ Kristin Espinasse (2007)
Representative assemblies are often taunted by their enemies with being places of mere talk and bavardage. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Carlisle; si vous pouvez supporter tout ce bavardage, cest parce que vous aimez votre fille, qui en est en partie la cause. ❋ Helen [Editor] Clergue (N/A)
Musset's _Merle Blanc_, and like them we live "de plaisir, d'honneur, de bavardage, de gloire et de chiffons." ❋ Various (N/A)
Though bavardage accounted for much of the general knowledge of every one's affairs, there was an uncanny mystery in the speed at which a particular secret spread. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
Adieu, dear Lady Carlisle; si vous pouvez supporter tout ce bavardage, cest parce que vous aimez votre fille, qui en est en partie la cause. ❋ Ed (1899)
Pardon de ce bavardage et mille amitiés -- avec tous mes compliments pour ❋ John Knox Laughton (1872)
Representative assemblies are often taunted by their enemies with being places of mere talk and _bavardage_. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)
At the left of Stephen Colonna rode Adrian, grave and silent, and replying only by monosyllables to the gay bavardage of the Knight of Provence. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
The sentimental bavardage of boys in love will be lost upon me. ❋ Various (1836)
Philosophically speaking, this is what Kierkegaard called idle talk, snakke in Danish; what Heidegger called Gerede; what Sartre called bavardage. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Special issue: “La Littérature des camps: la quête d’une parole juste entre silence et bavardage” (Literature of the Camps: The Search for the Right Word between Silence and Chatter) (1995): 25 – 39; Fine, E.A. “Le Témoin comme romancier: Anna Langfus et le problème de la distance” (The Witness as Novelist: Anna Langfus and the Problem of Distancing). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Penelope Penfeather, enduring, without flinching, the strange variety of conceited bavardage, which that lady’s natural parts and acquired information enabled her to pour forth with unparalleled profusion. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Ce perroquet, que l’oncle Baptiste m’avait donné pour se débarrasser de son éternel bavardage, s’obstina à ne pas parler dès qu’il fut à moi. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
“P.S. To prevent bavardage, I prefer going in person to sending my servant with a letter. ❋ Byron, George G (1854)
"P.S. To prevent _bavardage_, I prefer going in person to sending my servant with a letter. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)
