La Bruyère
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noun
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“China is an industrial hub for the world,” Emily de La Bruyère, a co-founder of Horizon Advisory, said at the hearing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
“Chinese strategic discourse on the Olympics underlines the stakes,” the report, written by FDD fellows Emily de La Bruyère and Nathan Picarsic, states.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021
And “life at court,” the 17th-century moralist Jean de La Bruyère wrote, “is a serious, melancholy game.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2012
It is the pithy way in which they are expressed by such men as La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, and Balzac that made the reputation of these great writers.
From Rambles in Womanland by Max O'Rell
At the beginning of the century the chief place among newspapers was occupied by the Mercure Galant, which had enjoyed the contempt of La Bruyère, and the management of Visé and Thomas Corneille.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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