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JUSTIN, old and experienced valet of the Vidame de Pamiers; was secretly slain by order of Bourignard because he had discovered the real name, but carefully concealed, of the father of Mme. Desmarets.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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Bourignard alias Ferragus, and of a married woman who passed for her godmother.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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His association with The Thirteen, a powerful and secret band of men, who counted among their members Ronquerolles, Marsay and Bourignard, probably brought him this unsolicited favor.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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He was on intimate terms, in 1815, with Paul de Manerville, and was already one of the all powerful Thirteen, with Bourignard, Montriveau and Ronquerolles.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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Portuguese-Brazilian, who had been a sailor, and whom Bourignard duplicated exactly.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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FUNCAL (Comte de), an assumed name of Bourignard, when he was met at the Spanish Embassy, Paris, about 1820, by Henri de Marsay and
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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The remains of Clemence were placed at first in Pere Lachaise, but afterwards were disinterred, incinerated and sent to Jules Desmarets by Bourignard, assisted by twelve friends who thus thought to dull the edge of the keenest of conjugal sorrows.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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Bourignard in his last illness, among others that of the worthy vicar of the church of the Bonne-Nouvelle (to whom he made his last confession, for he died a Christian), do not permit us to entertain any sort of doubt.
The Thirteen Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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"This Ferragus, this Bourignard, or this Monsieur de Funcal, is a demon!" cried Maulincour, after having read it.
The Thirteen Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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"Monsieur, not a sound, not a word," said Bourignard, whose voice he recognized.
The Thirteen Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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