Laforgue
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Simon’s coach, Etienne Laforgue, tested positive for the coronavirus after arriving in New York, and Simon was disqualified because he was deemed a “close contact.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
Electrified by what he read of Laforgue in Arthur Symons’s “The Symbolist Movement in Literature,” the Harvard undergrad ordered the French poet’s “Oeuvres complétes” from Paris.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2015
Eliot finally discovered his true voice when, in 1909, he happened upon the work of Jules Laforgue.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2015
His Father Laforgue is a composite of the passionate and courageous priests who followed Samuel de Champlain and the early fur trappers into the region.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is similar to another remark made to me once by Georges Laforgue, on an occasion when I had been extolling Julian to the skies.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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