Crossword-Solution: POLITESSE 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Not even the most classical poet could have displayed inborn politeness--la politesse du coeur--in a higher degree.

Lord Edward at once relieved the squaw of her pack by placing it upon his own shoulders,—a beautiful instance of what the French call _politesse de cœur_—the inbred politeness of the true gentleman.

Downe’s face, which seemed faintly to reflect itself upon the countenance of her companion—that _politesse du coeur_ which was so natural to her having possibly begun already to work results.

Balzac made /visites de politesse/ to the Princesse de Schonburg, an acquaintance of Madame Hanska's, but no more than were required by courtesy.

Superficial refinement is better than none, but the Chesterfield pulpit cannot afford to shirk the duty of proclaiming loud and far that the only courtesy worthy of respect is that 'politesse de coeur,' the politeness of the heart, which finds expression in consideration for others as the ruling principle of conduct.