valet de chambre
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valets 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 Berthold Auerbach
I am absolutely alone, my valet de chambre stayed at Bayonne with a groom and three beautiful horses, which at Paris ought to pay the price of their journey as well as my own.’”
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Elizabeth S. Kite
The reply brought good fortune for the lad, for Louis made him his valet de chambre, and took him afterward into his most intimate confidence.
From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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