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
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
I shall write about it to Father La Chaise, that he may set it right.
From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis
In favour of prohibition stood Laval, the Jesuits, the Sorbonne, the Archbishop of Paris, and the king's confessor, Pere La Chaise.
From The Fighting Governer : A Chronicle of Frontenac by Colby, Charles W. (Charles William)
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