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Foucquet

American  
[foo-ke] / fuˈkɛ /

noun

  1. Fouquet.


Foucquet British  
/ fukɛ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of (Nicolas) Fouquet

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"Never," said one of the letters, "will M. Foucquet know that he has a companion."

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine

The Abbe Foucquet was sitting in the remote and darkest corner of the room, quietly telling his beads.

From The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

Dear Abbe Foucquet," said Juliette after a while, "his is the kind of devotion which I feel sure will never be found under the new regimes of anarchy and of so-called equality.

From The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

When times became so troublous in France after my dear father's death, his confessor and friend, the Abbe Foucquet, took charge of all my mother's jewels for me.

From The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

But when he had gone, she turned with a sudden passionate outburst towards the Abbe Foucquet, her faithful companion through the past long, weary hours.

From The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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