La Chaise
Americannoun
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Opened in 1804, the 110-acre cemetery — named after Louis XIV’s confessor, the Rev. François de La Chaise d’Aix — perches on a hillside peering down at central Paris.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
In the apartment’s office, pride of place is given to Charles and Ray Eames’s late 1940s La Chaise in white plastic.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
The names of the men who took upon themselves the consequences of such a decision have remained unknown: doubtless the confessor La Chaise was one of the theologians; who was the other?
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by John Rudd
A lady told the author, with great empressement, that she had rather not die at all, than to die and be buried any where except in Père La Chaise!
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by
It appeared also that he was in the pay of Lewis, and had solicited his confessor, Pere La Chaise, for a sum of L300,000 in order to get rid of parliament.
From Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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