affaire
- n a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
- Since the days of the Dreyfus case, one of the perennial features of French government has been l'affairethat unique combination of intrigue, scandal and politics that seems to.
- When a news sensation lasts longer than one day, the Paris press calls it an affaire.
- Newsreaders in Paris turned eagerly last week to the final chapter of what has been headlined since last winter as L'affaire Klotz.