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La Chaise

American  
[la shez] / la ˈʃɛz /

noun

  1. Père François d'Aix de 1624–1709, French Roman Catholic priest: confessor to Louis XIV.


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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

A few years ago I asked the superintendent of Pere La Chaise if he knew where I could find the tomb of Auguste Comte.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Another most interesting great church is La Chaise Dieu near Le Puy, a remarkable construction of the fourteenth century.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

On hearing of this, his lady, a grand daughter of La Chaise, the former commissary-general and ordonnateur, hastened to the city.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert

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