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I have sometimes had five or six valets-de-chambre, without a single footman in livery except my chaplain.'

From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Wharton, Grace

Fouquet's brow darkened; he called his valets-de-chambre, and dressed in ceremonial costume.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

They have been trained without difficulty to their present profession, and attend upon their respective owners in the capacity of valets-de-chambre.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Willis, Nathaniel Parker

The king must have noblemen as valets-de-chambre, as masters of the wardrobe or of the chase or of the revels.

From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Hayes, Carlton J. H.

Saint Denis and Noverraz, valets-de-chambre; Pierron, officer of the kitchen; and Archambaud, butler—Marchand, one of the executors, and the quarrelsome and disloyal General Gourgaud, of whom we may have something more to say further on.

From The Tragedy of St. Helena by Runciman, Walter