perfide Albion

== French == === Etymology === First coined by the French poet and playwright Augustin Louis de Ximénès at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɛʁ.fid al.bjɔ̃/ === Proper noun === perfide Albion f (uncountable) Perfidious Albion ==== Usage notes ==== See quotes in Albion, including its first use by De Ximénès. ==== Descendants ==== → English: Perfidious Albion (calque) === Further reading === "perfide Albion", Dictionnaire des francophones [1]