amour

Stripping away the amour propre of a nuclear-armed potentate is a dangerous business.

“Congratulations mon amour de la vie,” she wrote to Menendez, according to the indictment.

Charlie swoons listening to Nick’s French, so Nick throws him a cheesy but charming “Mon amour.”

"Happy birthday, Sophie. From this, to this, and everything in between, there’s no one I’d rather have by my side… I love you, mon amour."

But Edna soon became a case study in exorbitant amour propre, lampooning suburban pretensions, political correctness and the cult of celebrity, and acquiring a damehood along the way.