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  • Claude of the Jungle: The other Lévi-Strauss turns 100 By Benjamin Ivry

    Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100 2008

  • Claude of the Jungle: The other Lévi-Strauss turns 100 By Benjamin Ivry

    Vitro Nasu » 2008 » November 2008

  • Then there came Une Dragonnade, par Mme. la Duchesse d'Ivry, which is all on your side.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • It has also a notable place in poetry, in Macaulay's stirring ode of "Ivry," from which we quote:

    Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. Charles Morris 1877

  • The surgeon sat in the shade of the chimney-piece, his face shaded by his hand, and I could not discover whether he saw anything to admire in my protegee, until, standing in the centre of the room, she gave as 'Ivry' in glorious style.

    Castle Nowhere Constance Fenimore Woolson 1867

  • Aix-la-Chapelle, his physicians dreading a paralytic attack; and Madame d'Ivry's party still sauntering on the walk, the men smoking their cigars, the women breathing their scandal, now beheld Dr. Finck issuing from Lady Anne's apartments, and wearing such a face of anxiety, that the

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • "They are making a tool of you, my poor Gascon," said M. de Florac, who saw Madame d'Ivry's eyes watching the couple.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • My cousins the Duc d'Ivry's sons and his grandson were still alive.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Only think! he is Prince de Moncontour now, the second title of the Duc d'Ivry's family; and M. le

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • When Miss O'Grady, as she did some time afterwards, quitted Madame d'Ivry's family, she spoke with great freedom regarding the behaviour of that duchess, and recounted horrors which she, the latter, had committed.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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