Urfé

British  

/ urfe /

noun

1. Honoré d' (ɔnɔre d). 1568–1625, French writer, whose pastoral L'Astrée (1607–27) is considered the first French novel

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Example Sentences

Absurd Ideas of Madame D'Urfe on My Supernatural Powers— Marriage of My Brother—I Conceive a Plan on His Wedding Day—I Go to Holland on a Financial Mission—The Jew Boaz Gives Me a Lesson—M. d'Afri—Esther—Another Casanova—I Find Therese Imer Again By the time that the Prince du Turenne had recovered from the small-pox and the Count de la Tour d'Auvergne had left him, the latter, knowing his aunt's taste for the occult sciences, was not surprised to find me become her confident and most intimate friend.

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I Leave Marseilles—Henriette at Aix—Irene at Avignon— Treachery of Possano—Madame d'Urfe Leaves Lyon The wedding only interested me because of the bride.

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A majority of Elizabethan plays are romantic rather than classical or realistic, though the romance is of many kinds and drawn from many widely different sources, as Boccaccio, D'Urfé, or Lope de Vega.

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In the credulous Marquise d’Urfe, he found a rich benefactor who subsidized his social life, his gambling and financial operations.

From BusinessWeek

Villeray, the senior member of the Sovereign Council and the Abbé d'Urfé, a relative of Fénelon's, were in France at the same time.

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