Vousvoie

‘Steak, s’il te plaît,’ I said. I was unsure whether I should vousvoie him or not.

LS tutoies men (Rich, AO), whom he treats as buddies, and vousvoies women (Sally, La Directrice), adopting with them the role of chivalrous patron;

Denise Gamzon recalled that [Gilbert] Bloch was ‘very French…with the style of an officer at times a bit aggravating’. This sentiment was echoed by Annette Porat in a 2010 interview, where she recalled that Bloch was the only person at Lautrec to ‘vousvoie’ the other youths.