valet de chambre
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Catherine's valet de chambre, Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, cooked up for the occasion a lavish combination of painting, music and dancing that is now rated as the first true ballet ever performed.
From Time Magazine Archive
“He has so much martial dignity in his deportment,” observed Benjamin Rush, “that there is not a king in Europe but would look like a valet de chambre by his side.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
One day while we was on duty at the palace an old valet de chambre brought a letter from Baroness Steigeneck, who was then at the height of her power.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
She thought, too, that the valet de chambre had been detained later than usual with the Marquis, and unwilling to make an alarm, she repressed her agitation.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
A few minutes before his last breath he took the hand of Morand, his valet de chambre, who was watching by him, pressed it, and said: "Adieu, my dear Morand, I am gone."
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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