Posted by [info]dienasgramata on 2010.01.18 at 23:55
"noblesse oblige" means, literally, "nobility obliges, or performs service", though it is normally used as a noun phrase that might best be translated as "the obligation of the nobility."

The Dictionnaire de l’Académie française defines it thus:

1. Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly.
2. (Figuratively) One must act in a fashion that conforms with one's position, and with the reputation that one has earned.


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