Clerc
Proper noun
Meaning
Clerc (plural Clercs)
A surname.
Examples
One of the principle causes is that the modern world has made the clerc into a citizen, subject to all the responsibilities of a citizen, and consequently to despise lay passions is far more difficult for him than for his predecessors.
From his loftiest pulpit the modern clerc assures man that he is great in proportion as he is practical.
In 1755, Abbé de l'Épée founded the first school for deaf children in Paris; Laurent Clerc was arguably its most famous graduate.
In fact the bestiary has been expanded beyond the source in the Norman bestiary of Guillaume le Clerc to ninety animals.
Some 1,000 water filters were distributed in Grand'Anse in the communes of : Abricots, Anse du Clerc.
Tragedians often competed with alternative versions of the same plot: for example, Michel le Clerc produced an Iphigénie in the same year as Racine (1674), and Jacques Pradon also wrote a play about Phèdre (1677).