Carried away by a kind of folie deux, the boys resolve "to explore all the possibilities of human experience," to pluck the most exotic flowers of evil.
French Critic Millau in an early observation of the trend labeled it la grande folie (the great folly).
Paris finds itself swept up in a craze for chestnut-brown color that is being called "La folie du marron.
Dana Andersen in Financial Times There is a predetermined setting - in this case, a Riviera casino in the 1960s; actors choose and develop their own characters; Andersen calls each scene in advance (eg "Jean Folie returns with Stormy Spice to her hotel room, only to discover that...
Hans Kung in Asia Times Online Kung described Dominus Iesus as "a hotch-potch of medieval backwardness and folie de grandeur".