sans-souci

She also knew the actresses, her rivals, and all the prima-donnas; in short, that whole exceptional feminine society, so kindly, so graceful in its easy “sans-souci,” which absorbs into its own Bohemian life all who allow themselves to be caught in the frantic whirl of its gay spirits, its eager abandonment, and its contemptuous indifference to the future.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

It was his _sans-souci_, and here he cast aside his vexations; but they were lighter than mine.

The Lost Stradivarius John Meade Falkner 1895

A soldier is particularly liable to fall into this sans-souci way of looking at life, and those to whom its pleasures, as well as its ills, are largely due.

Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point Flipper, Henry O 1878

Teach them that gilded saloons, with their accompanying allurements of French latitude in dress and dancing, and the sans-souci manners and style of conversation (which, in less degenerate times, would have branded with disgrace and infamy all who indulged it), teach them that all these tend to the depths of social evil; and oh, lead them back to the hearthstone, that holy post which too many, alas, have deserted!

Beulah 1872

But friendship is as blind as love, in spite of Horace’s opinion.] [Footnote 12: Though I call Dibdin a ballad-monger, I do not think him by any means equal to the other songster, sans-souci Dibdin.] [Footnote 13: It is a melancholy thing, that men of the first abilities have frequently lent their aid to the cause of vice.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3