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La Farge

American  
[luh fahrzh, fahrj] / lə ˈfɑrʒ, ˈfɑrdʒ /

noun

  1. John, 1835–1910, U.S. painter, stained-glass designer, and writer.

  2. Oliver Hazard Perry Oliver II, 1901–63, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.


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Mr. La Farge presented it as his translation of a minor French poet, Paul Poissel, whom he had invented out of whole cloth.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

Based in La Farge, about 90 miles northwest of Madison in Vernon County, Organic Valley includes more than 2,000 farms with annual sales of more than $1 billion.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 12, 2020

“The material had always been considered dead. But by seeing green tissue, “I thought, ‘Well, that’s pretty unusual,’ ” La Farge said about the centuries-old moss tufts she found.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2019

William Trost Richards is a specialty as is the stained-glass artist and painter John La Farge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2018

We have had enlightened society: La Farge the painter, and your friend Henry Adams: a great privilege - would it might endure.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson

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