Augier
Americannoun
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Augier, instantly recognisable by her auburn hair and bright red lipstick, once famously told Microsoft founder Bill Gates that he was not rich enough to buy her hotel.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2019
Augier ran the pink-domed Negresco hotel on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice for more than 60 years after inheriting it from her father in 1957.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2019
In 1801 the French botanist Augustin Augier used a tree as a kind of chart, for bringing order to the diversity of plants.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2018
French media, citing leaked corporate data, reported that Jean-Jacques Augier had joint ownership of two firms registered in the Cayman Islands, a Caribbean tax haven.
From Reuters ● Apr. 7, 2013
The opera could not, in any case, be put into rehearsal till the following year; besides, Augier had to finish a big work he was then employed on.
From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Charles Gounod
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