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...t, and generally acknowledged as his greatest work, Ball-of-Fat (French title: Boule de Suif) is the touching story of an interrupted coach ride from Rouen to Le Havre during which occurs the corruption of a principled prostitute by immoral and hypocritical members of the upper class. The story is set during the occupation of Rouen at the time of the Franco-Prussian War.(S...

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...f danger. Sailing upon the river is one of the common amusements of the city of Rouen, in France. My father also took great pleasure in these water-... ... occasion he agreed with a party to sail to Port St. Omer, about ten miles from Rouen. Dinner and musical instruments had been sent on board the ves...

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...franco, o cisto en la urba administracio de Paris. Nask. 29. jan. 1890 en Rouen. Komitatano de SFPE. Gvidas kursojn depost 1910. Verkis kun Doue la G... .... Sekr. de la organiza Komitato de la 1-a UK, 1905. Kunfondis la grupon de Rouen, gvidis kursojn, kunlaboris en la Revuo. Verkis: kun Michaux: Methode... ...iaj kongresoj okazis en Orleans (1921), Troyes (2922), Saint Denis (1923), Rouen (1924), Lyon (1925), Paris (1926), Ivry (1927), Bourges (1928), Saint...

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...le CHAPTER I SOLDIER BOY - PRIVATELY TO HIMSELF............................................................................. 4 CHAPTER II LETTER FROM ROUEN - TO GENERAL ALISON........................................................................7 CHAPTER III GENERAL ALISON TO HIS MOTHER.........9 CHAPTER IV CATHY TO HER AUNT MERCEDES........10 CHAPTER V GENERAL ALISON TO...

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.....................................................4 CHAPTER II LETTER FROM ROUEN TO GENERAL ALISON................................................... ...ls is out on depredation and I can’t get hold of him. CHAPTER II LETTER FROM ROUEN TO GENERAL ALISON My dear Brother in Law, — Please let me write a...

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...ove for everyone she meets, win the hearts of all, family and neighbors alike, and cause many a change in that little French village on the road from Rouen to Darnetal. This book was originally written in French, Translated into Spanish, and then into English.(Summary by Jami Chambers)...

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...he three major phases of her life - as a youth in Domremy, as the commander of Charles' army on military campaign, and as a defendant at the trial in Rouen. The book is presented as a translation by Alden of de Conte's memoirs, written in his later years for the benefit of his descendants. Twain based his descriptions of Joan of Arc on his daughter, Susy Clemens, as he rem...

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...her, had sailed into the mouth of the Seine, and how Archbishop Franco, of Rouen, had come to meet him and brought him the keys of the town, and how n... ...eet him and brought him the keys of the town, and how not one Neustrian of Rouen had met with harm from the brave Northmen. Then she told him of his g... ...all ride with us to-morrow, my Lord,” answered Bernard, “but it must be to Rouen, there to be invested with your ducal sword and mantle, and to receiv... ..., speak- ing of the corpse, which Duke Alan of Brittany was escort- ing to Rouen, there to be buried beside the old Duke Rollo, and the Duchess Emma, ... ...n he found that it was but too real, and all was prepared for him to go to Rouen with the vassals; indeed, it was for no other purpose than to fetch h... ...r the Duke of Normandy to bring his nurse with him in his first entry into Rouen, and she must be content to follow at some space behind under the esc... ... as the meal was over, mounted his horse, and joined them in their ride to Rouen. So far it had not been very different from Richard’s last jour- ney,... ...osely, carried a long, heavy sword, with a cross handle. The Archbishop of Rouen received both coronet and sword, and laid them on the Altar. Then the... ...y, and Richard, who had been confirmed by his godfather, the Archbishop of Rouen, immediately after his baptism, knelt in solemn awe to receive the ot...

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... make him burst his lead and rise from death. GLOUCESTER: Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up? If Henry were recall’d to life again, These news would ... ...His days may finish ere that hapless time. [Exit.] SCENE II: France. Before Rouen. [Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE disguised, with four Soldiers with sacks up... ...pon their backs .] JOAN LA PUCELLE : These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen, Through which our policy must make a breach: Take heed, be wary ho... ... Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city, And we be lords and rulers over Rouen; Therefore we’ll knock. [Knocks.] Watch: [ Within] Qui est la? J... ...corn. Watch: Enter, go in; the market bell is rung. JOAN LA PUCELLE : Now, Rouen, I’ll shake thy bulwarks to the ground. [Exeunt.] [Enter CHARLES, t... ...Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem! And once again we’ll sleep secure in Rouen. BASTARD OF ORLEANS : Here enter’d Pucelle and her practisants; No... ...ng.] JOAN LA PUCELLE : Behold, this is the happy wedding torch That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen, But burning fatal to the Talbotites! [Exit.] B... ...RD: Lord Talbot, do not so dishonor me: Here will I sit before the walls of Rouen And will be partner of your weal or woe. BURGUNDY: Courageous Bedf... ...: Now where’s the Bastard’s braves, and Charles his gleeks? What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief That such a valiant company are fled. Now ...

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...ht, and came to anchor at Val de la Haye on the Seine, three leagues below Rouen. Here the next morning (10th), it was met by the flo- tilla of steamb... ...ition, embarked immediately in the flotilla, which arrived the same day at Rouen. At Rouen salutes were fired, the National Guard on both sides of the...

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...the seditions in Paris, her mother’s family had sent the young courtier to Rouen, hoping that he could there be trained to the duties of the magistrac... ...bonesetter’ s ambition. The duke ordered out his equipages and started for Rouen, bringing with him the Comtesse de Grandlieu, her sister the Marquise... ...he passion of the young Duc de Nivron for Gabrielle Beauvouloir. People in Rouen spoke of it to the Duc d’Herouville in the midst of a banquet given t... ...hes into monseigneur’s own hand. I have learned to-night that he is now in Rouen; he has brought the heiress of the house of Grandlieu with him, not, ... ...e received orders to ar- rest him and send him in chains, under escort, to Rouen,” said d’Artagnon, leaving Gabrielle dumb with terror. The young girl...

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...wa, on board of which, gripped by the inclement winter alongside a quay in Rouen, the tenth chapter of “Almayer’s Folly” was begun. With interest, I s... ...rd in a large package in Victoria Dock, London, just before we started for Rouen, France. And in the shadowy life of the F. C. T. C. lies the secret o... ...nch company intending to establish a regular monthly line of sailings from Rouen, for the transport of French emigrants to Canada. But, frankly, this ... ...ly” went with me to the Victoria Dock, whence in a few days we started for Rouen. I won’t go so far as saying that the engaging of a man fated never t... ...ters while we lay in the Victoria Dock, but never an emigrant turned up in Rouen—of which, being a humane person, I con- fess I was glad. Some gentlem... ...t know how long he expected us to be stuck on the river- side outskirts of Rouen, but I know that the cables got hauled up and turned end for end acco...

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...a,” on board of which, gripped by the inclement winter alongside a quay in Rouen, the tenth chapter of “Almayer’s Folly” was begun. With interest, I s... ... in a large pack- age in Victoria Dock, London, just before we started for Rouen, France. And in the shadowy life of the F.C.T.C. lies the secret of t... ...nch company intending to establish a regular monthly line of sailings from Rouen, for the transport of French emigrants to Canada. But, frankly, this ... ...ly” went with me to the Victoria Dock, whence in a few days we started for Rouen. I won’t go so far as say- ing that the engaging of a man fated never... ...ters while we lay in the Victoria Dock, but never an emigrant turned up in Rouen—of which, being a humane person, I confess I was glad. Some gentlemen... ...n’t know how long he expected us to be stuck on the riverside outskirts of Rouen, but I know that the cables got hauled up and turned end for end acco...

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...girls, and in a squalid room, Paquita sang; the murky town beneath Was Rouen whence the slender spires rise T o chew the storm with teeth. R... ...deous, noisy, full of rage— And here followed a magnificent description of Rouen— where Dinah had never been—written with the affected bru- tality whi... ...yron, exacted from Paquita a vow of absolute fidelity, in the Cathedral at Rouen in front of the alter of the Blessed Virgin, who Though a Maid is a... ...t of the poem was devoted to describing Paquita’s sufferings when alone in Rouen waiting till the campaign was over; she stood writhing at the window ... ...ch of magnificence, for lack of means, as it would be difficult to find in Rouen men impassioned enough to place Paquita in a suitable set- ting of lu... ...draye embark for the United States, as briskly as if it were to go down to Rouen in a steamboat, he ceased to be- lieve in the future. He went in from...

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...able in the middle. Madame had three birds in a cage. They were no great thing, she explained. Fine birds were so dear. They had sought to get a Holla... ...veller as that? and as homely an object among the cliffs and orchards of the Seine as on the green plains of Sambre?) – they had sought to get a Holla...

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...heard of it than he or dered Harold to be escorted to the ancient town of Rouen, where he then was, and where he received him as an honoured guest. N... ...ick about it. When the news reached Norman William, hunting in his park at Rouen, he dropped his bow, returned to his palace, called his nobles to cou... ...e followers from his father’s court, and endeavoured to take the Castle of Rouen by surprise. Failing in this, he shut him self up in another Castle ... ...nty first year of his reign (which proved to be the last), he went over to Rouen, England was as full of hatred against him, as if every leaf on every... ...a dispute with the King of France about some territory. While he stayed at Rouen, negotiating with that King, he kept his bed and took medicines: bein... ...and gave him a mortal hurt. For six weeks he lay dying in a monastery near Rouen, and then made his will, giving En gland to William, Normandy to Rob... ...f Gilbert de L’aigle. And you?’ said he. ‘I am Berold, a poor butcher of Rouen,’ was the answer. Then, they said together, ‘Lord be merciful to us b... ..., he dropped and sunk; and of all the brilliant crowd, the poor Butcher of Rouen alone was saved. In the morning, some fisher men saw him floating in... ...k the opportunity of the King being thus employed at home, to lay siege to Rouen, the capital of Normandy. But the King, who was extraordinarily quick...

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...upon: Go down upon him, you have power enough, And in a captive chariot into Rouen Bring him our prisoner. Constable: This beco... ...he will give. Act III, scene v 36 Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen. DAUPHIN: Not so, I do beseech your majesty. KING OF FRANCE : Be ...

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...he fiery scaffold, the spectators without end, on every road, pouring into Rouen as to a coronation, the surging smoke, the volleying flames, the host... ...elf separately. Now, Joanna, if hated at all, was hated personally, and in Rouen on national grounds. Hence there would be a certainty of calumny aris... ...? Who is she that cometh with blackened flesh from walking the furnaces of Rouen? This is she, the shepherd girl, counsellor that had none for herself... ... term applied to one who, when summoned to court, fails to ap- pear. 66 13 ROUEN: the city in Normandy where Joan was burned at the stake. 110 The En...

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...velin magnetique,’ of the Sieurs d’Hozier and Petit-Jean, Parlementeers of Rouen. Sweet young d’Hozier, ‘bred in the faith of his Missal, and of parch... ...e-aged one! The Prison-doors are open. Hardly again shall ye pre- side the Rouen Chamber of Accounts; but vanish obscurely into Limbo. (See Deux Amis,... ...ere is also a plot, which emerges more than once, for carrying the King to Rouen: (See Hist. Parl. vii. 316; Bertrand-Moleville, &c.) plot after plot,... ... of prescribed tenor: King carried out of Paris, but only to Compiegne and Rouen, hardly to Metz, since, once for all, no Emigrant rabble shall take t... ...d always had some plan within his plan. Had they fled frankly with him, to Rouen or anywhither, long ago! They may fly now with chance immeasurably le... ...e War-Minister; and ceases not, having got him made. The King shall fly to Rouen; shall there, with the gallant Narbonne, properly ‘modify the Con- st... ...nd proposal is on foot, for the hundredth time, of carrying his Majesty to Rouen and the Castle of Gaillon. Swiss at Courbevoye are in readiness; much...

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...isonment,” replied Alain. “As she was already transferred to Bicetre, near Rouen, to undergo her punishment, noth- ing was attempted on her behalf unt... ...ul and made her the angel of Parisian charity. In that dreadful Bicetre of Rouen, she conceived the plan to the realization of which we are now devote... ...examine, saying it was by Gericault. “Gericault,” she told him, “came from Rouen; his family were under certain obligations to my father, who was pres... ...te Macloud, Baron Bourlac. Formerly attorney-general to the Royal Court of Rouen. Grand officer of the Legion of honor. [Aha! Thought so.—JB.] “Ha! th... ...nne de Mergi; my father was the son of the president of the Royal Court at Rouen.” “Ah!” said Godefroid; “then your grandfather married his daughter t...

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...xed for the surrender. The difficulty was, as Henry had found at Harfleur, Rouen, and many other places, to enforce forbear- ance on his soldiery, who... ... The Caged Lion Queen Catherine and her ladies joined the funeral march at Rouen, or rather followed it at a mile’s interval; but the two trains kept ... ...n to that burthen of care which in thirteen years laid him in his grave at Rouen. As he left the Castle and came out into the steep fortified street, ... ...n, imprisoned for a time by her own Luxemburg kindred, and then carried to Rouen, where the kind Duchess Anne of Bedford did her best to persuade her ... ...e judgment of the Church; but when he removed himself and his duchess from Rouen, and left the conduct of the matter to the sterner and harder Beaucha... ... by any prince at any age of the world; and while he slept in his grave at Rouen, that grave which even Louis XI. respected, Esclairmonde, as, like a ...