I'm learning French myself using Karl C. Sandburg's French for Reading and met this line:
A l'occasion de la mise en marche de ce nouveau laboratoire, M. Louis l-Ringuet, professeur de physique à l'Ecole Polytechnique, a rédigé quelques pages pour reconnaître l'appui materiel offert par le Ministere de la Défense Nationale et de la Guerre, par la Caisse Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, et par la Société des Amis de l'Ecole Polytechnique.
I'm a bit lost at the "mise", what does it mean? Is it a female noun or the past particle of "mettre"? If it's a pp , how come it is female form here?
My mobile dictionary WordRef says:
- As female noun it could be "stake, bet" or "appearance ", either seems not exact match
- As pp it's from mettre, but this is also doubtable as I guess normally pp shall use the male form?