The French translation of "by land" is: par terre.
The French word for flat land is "plaine."
Terre
The word for "land" in French is "terre".
a land = une terre terre
pays des palmiers
un lopin de terre
land, it comes from latin or french
"La terre" ("the land" but it's important to remember that it's a feminine word)
"Paysan" in French refers to a peasant or a farmer. It is often used to describe someone who works on the land or is involved in agriculture.
He was a mesenger to the royal governor, Lord Dinwiddie. He was to take word to the French in the Ohio River Valley that they were trespassing on land claimed by the English. The French told Washington that they would hold the land at all costs.
The word anglais comes from an old name for south-east England which was Anglia. The french name for England, angleterre, means land of the angles.
Yes, the word "plateau" is borrowed from French, where it means a flat elevated area of land. It was introduced into English in the early 18th century.