Bossuet
Americannoun
noun
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I have known Saint Exupery at two schools, namely St. Jean, Fribourg, Switzerland and Bossuet, Paris, from 1915 to 1919, also knew him in Strasbourg when he was in the air force.
From Time Magazine Archive
For 300 years, the great dialogue in France has been between Faith and Reason, between Pascal, Bossuet and Chateaubriand on one hand, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau on the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
He prepared at Bossuet School for the "Borda," French Annapolis, flunked, was too old to try again.
From Time Magazine Archive
For Flaubert, who modelled his magnificent prose harmonies on the Old Testament, Shakespeare, Bossuet, and Châteaubriand, the final test of noble prose is the audible reading thereof.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
Bossuet regarded this flight as a gross act of disobedience; in the winter Madame Guyon was arrested and shut up in the Bastille.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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