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  • Angouleme is in the road from Poitiers to Bordeaux; and although Gregory delays the siege, I can more readily believe that he confounded the order of history, than that Clovis neglected the rules of war.] 54 Pyrenaeos montes usque

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • "Angouleme" by Thomas M. Disch feels more like a literary heavy-weight than what we normally associate with a science fiction piece.

    REVIEW: The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel 2009

  • In "Angouleme", a teenage gang plan a murder but only one of them, Little Mister Kissy Lips, is serious enough to attempt it.

    REVIEW: 334 by Thomas M. Disch 2005

  • Abbe Comte Czarouski, whom Balzac calls a holy and virtuous priest, and likens to Abbe Hinaux, the Duchesse d'Angouleme's confessor.

    Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

  • Next day General Gilly received further despatches from General Ambert, from which he learned that it was the general's intention, in order to avoid the danger of a civil war, to separate the Duc d'Angouleme's army from the departments which sympathised with the royal cause; he had therefore decided to make Pont-Saint-Esprit a military post, and had ordered the 10th Regiment of mounted chasseurs, the 13th artillery, and

    Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • Under the heading "Angouleme" followed some items of news: --

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • The Duc d'Angouleme's expedition had been carried out, King Ferdinand was on the throne, and Carlos

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Introduced at the Elyess-Bourbon, at the Duchesse d'Angouleme's, at the Pavillon Marsan, he met on all sides with the surface civilities due to the heir of an old family, not so old but it could be called to mind by the sight of a living member.

    The Jealousies of a Country Town Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Introduced at the Elyess-Bourbon, at the Duchesse d'Angouleme's, at the Pavillon Marsan, he met on all sides with the surface civilities due to the heir of an old family, not so old but it could be called to mind by the sight of a living member.

    The Collection of Antiquities Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Under the heading "Angouleme" followed some items of news: --

    Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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