Troyon

American  

[trwa-yawn] / trwaˈyɔ̃ /

noun

1. Constant 1813–65, French painter.

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Example Sentences

When Constant Troyon was a little boy he used to love to go to visit his father at the big factory where all kinds of china and pottery were made.

From Stories Pictures Tell Book Two by Carpenter, Flora L.

To the north of Troyon are steep wooded slopes, and to the west is an undulating and densely-wooded country, rising towards high hills.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Parrott, James Edward

This mode of division is adopted by M. Figuier, in his "Primitive Man," by the Museum of Saint-Germain in that portion devoted to pre-historic antiquities, and adhered to in essential points by Troyon and d'Archiac.

From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)

He praised Devéria, Chasseriau—who waited years before he came into his own; his preferred landscapists were Corot, Rousseau and Troyon.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

This day's fighting is sometimes referred to as the battle of the Aisne, and sometimes as the battle of Troyon.

From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest W.