Bruant
Americannoun
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For there to be found, among others, was a certain Mickey Finn, as celebrated in his day and town as Aristide Bruant was in a section of Paris of the nineties.
From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett
"Hello; there's Carrillo, the young apostle of Bruant, who makes such a hit with the elect."
From The Common Law by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
To give an account of the “Mirliton” is to tell the story of Bruant, the most popular ballad-writer in France to-day.
From The Ways of Men by Gregory, Eliot
To the noise of a strident chorus in choice argot, which I was told I should be thankful I did not understand, Bruant showed us into his café.
From Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
Bruant, a French architect, born in Paris; architect of the Invalides and the Salpétrière; d.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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