Lacretelle
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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La corruption," says Lacretelle, "entrait dans les plus paisibles m�nages, dans les familles les plus obscures.
From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel
"Never," says Lacretelle again, "were the French so combined together to combat the evils to which nature makes us pay tribute, and those which in a thousand ways creep into all social institutions."
From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John
Then in 1880 came M. de Lacretelle, who "presented to the Chambers a proposed law tending" to the same end which M. de Freycinet and M. Sadi Carnot had so unprofitably "studied"!
From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry
Lacretelle says it was at the "Maison du Prince de Foix, fort éloignée du château."
From The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Yonge, Charles Duke
In order to have more facts for the support of their arguments they procured other works: Montgaillard, Prudhomme, Gallois, Lacretelle, etc.; and the contradictions of these books in no way embarrassed them.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave
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