Auvergne

• “At the head of the famous Auvergne regiment, “Auvergne sans tache” (Auvergne the spotless), as it was called, he took part in the chief battles of the Seven Years’ War, notably in the victory of Klostercamp, where spotless Auvergne had 58 officers and 800 soldiers killed or wounded, the battle made memorable by the episode of the Chevalier d’Assas, who went to his heroic death in the fulfilment of an order given by Rochambeau.”

  Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. II

• “Count Rochambeau followed Lafayette after the alliance, and brought over with him among his regiments the grenadiers of Auvergne -- _Auvergne sans tache_, which motto they honored at Yorktown.”

  True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

• “Auvergne, and he had been associated with the heroes of Gatinais, whose motto was _Auvergne sans tache_.”

  True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

• “She lived in Auvergne and became a hermit at a young age.”

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• “In the late war in Germany, M. D’Assas, a French officer of the regiment of Auvergne, is said to have devoted himself in a similar manner.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “It was built on a mountain, near a little town of the same name, in that part of France called Auvergne, which now constitutes part of the present Departments of the Upper Loire and”

  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

• “He was not disconcerted by this loss, which he had always expected, but sheltered and clothed the fugitives, and raised a great body of archers and of horsemen, with whom he returned to his own territory in Auvergne.”

  A Book of Golden Deeds

• “The two had a date in his cabin, where he would provide tea while they screened d'Auvergne's Fifth Chromophony.”

  Inconstant Star

• “On ascending a hill (Clearihue's) to the north, the eye gathers in the contour of a dense grove, hiding in its drooping folds "Auvergne," the former secluded country seat of Chief Justice Jonathan Sewell, now owned by George Alford, Esq.”

  Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present

• “[808-3] This was the answer given in the roll-call of La Tour d'Auvergne's regiment after his death.”

  Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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