vide

(le) vide (FR ADJ N-M) empty; containing nothing perceptible, either solid or liquid (a vacuum); emptied of normal contents; someone not employed as he might be; uncovered; a void; an empty space; that which lacks reality or interest. The French regard »le vide« as primarily a philosophical concept, since an »empty« box still contains billions of molecules of air. Valéry Larbaud (1881 – 1957) writes: »And no matter where I go, in the entire universe, / I always meet, / Outside myself as within…