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The French word histoire also does double duty; “Quelle histoire!” means “what a story!” but inevitably conveys a subtext of doubtful credibility.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023

Known for such comic pairings as “La folle histoire de Max and Léon,” Marais and Ludig deliver a pair of protagonists who make Bill and Ted seem like Holmes and Watson.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2021

Picking our way along the road in the dark, with the cannons growling away fiercely some six miles off, she tells me her "petite histoire."

From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Mack, Louise

The Count fanned himself with his opera-hat with a languishing air, and lisped, "'Ah, oui, Sappho; c'est bien Sappho, toujours la m�me histoire, after more than two thousand years.'"

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip

Again, we render grace to French fertility of invention for this petit histoire, to which we ourselves venture to add a point or two, for the humor of this-side appetite.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)