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
Eliot finally discovered his true voice when, in 1909, he happened upon the work of Jules Laforgue.
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2015
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
At Harvard, Eliot took boxing lessons, fell under the influence of Irving Babbitt, a hard-minded classicist who was one of his professors, and was introduced to the poetry of Jules Laforgue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Georges Laforgue was disturbed when I told him what I planned to do.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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