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The first commercial appropriation of seigneurial haute cuisine was a Paris restaurant that opened in 1782—seven years before the storming of the Bastille and, appropriately, situated on the Rue de Richelieu.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2016
Bianca and Mick Jagger, draped in costume-party gold lamé, preen at a soirée in Mustique, and Boston-based decorator Lawrence C. Peabody, in natty white seersucker, strikes a seigneurial pose alongside his pool in Port-au-Prince.
From Architectural Digest ● Oct. 23, 2014
Beneath all the seigneurial duty and damask, this British series about aristocrats and their servants is at heart as American as Apple computers or the Magic Kingdom.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2014
Want to read a column in which Barney Ronay likens Marouane Fellaini to a beautiful peasant daughter in some seigneurial mediaeval fiefdom and Andy Carroll to a giant doomed woodlouse?
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2012
Too often they gave large seigneurial grants to men who had neither the energy nor the funds to do what was expected of a seigneur in the new land.
From Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 by William Bennett Munro
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