Lacretelle
Americannoun
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Fleda hesitated and then said it was by Lacretelle.
From Queechy by Warner, Susan
The action, which, however, was of but little importance, is called by Lacretelle "Le Combat de Fillingshausen."
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Walpole, Horace
Then in 1880 came M. de Lacretelle, who "presented to the Chambers a proposed law tending" to the same end which M. de Freycinet and M. Sadi Carnot had so unprofitably "studied"!
From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry
Lacretelle, who himself worshipped at her shrine, says, "She appeared to most of us as the Spirit of Clemency incarnate in the loveliest of human forms."
From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Baring, Evelyn
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