Lacretelle
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"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 John Durand
Wednesday, 3rd May: The troops of General Lacretelle carry the redoubt of Moulin Saquet.
From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by John Leighton
Fleda hesitated and then said it was by Lacretelle.
From Queechy by Susan Warner
Fleda hesitated, and then said it was by Lacretelle.
From Queechy, Volume I by Susan Warner
Lacretelle, who himself worshipped at her shrine, says, "She appeared to most of us as the Spirit of Clemency incarnate in the loveliest of human forms."
From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Evelyn Baring
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