French literary words: nom de plume and more

In literature we find many French words.
I shall search for a pen to write a novel under a pen name. If I can remember where I put the pen.

á la recherche du temps perdus - searching for the lost past (title of Marcel Proust's novel)
bon mot - good word or witty word
bonjour Tristesse - hello sadness
madeleine - the cake eaten by Marcel Proust which starts his daydream of the lost past
mot juste - right word or exact word or precise word
nom de plume - pen name
roman á clés - mystery (literally novel with a key)

Angela Lansbury, author

French words: bureau, bureaucracy, ensemble, petite, portmanteau, prologue

Here are some French words you will meet on your travels, mainly in the British newspapers and magazines.

Imagine your petite travel writer, tired of bureaucracy, sits at her bureau, beside her portmanteau, and tries to write the prologue to her roman de clé, using her nom de plume.

bureau - desk (or office)
bureaucracy - paperwork and offices doing time wasting paperwork
nom de plume - pen name
petite - Small (feminine) - the masculine is petit
pique - excite, arouse - middle French from the Latin - see dictionary.com which gives the origin of words
portmanteau - bag for carrying goods
prologue - first word, beginning of a book or explanation in advance of main chapter one, foreword
roman de clé - mystery novel

I shall now go and write the epilogue. (Afterword, a bit like those last words scrolling up the screen of a film based on a true story telling you what happened the villain and the heroine.)