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  • The other time was in 1968, when Dutchman Jan Janssen overtook yellow jersey Herman Van Springel of Belgium and runner-up Gregorio San Miguel of Spain in a flat 55km TT from Melun to Paris — even though Van Springel was considered the superior time trialist.

    Inside the Tour: This is not your typical Tour de France time trial 2010

  • Genevieve returns and the only solution is to introduce her to the boyfriend in Melun although other things come in to complicate this.

    [anomalies] the pain of correcting them 2009

  • Trouble was, they all grew up in Melun and so the odds were they might know one another anyway.

    [anomalies] the pain of correcting them 2009

  • Meanwhile, a second woman, Nicolette, who has a boyfriend in a town, Melun, south of Paris, has ideas about this Hugh.

    [anomalies] the pain of correcting them 2009

  • They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being transferred to Gaillon.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • A fugitive from Poissy or Melun has no such serious self-consciousness and belief in his own merit.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • As an exception criminals of the higher ranks are allowed to sojourn there, since, being already disgraced by a sentence in open court, their punishment would be too severe if they served their term of imprisonment at Melun or at Poissy.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • Cartouche, who, in company with two other gentlemen, robbed the coche, or packet-boat, from Melun, where they took a good quantity of booty, — making the passengers lie down on the decks, and rifling them at leisure.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • Shrewder than the heirs, whose cupidity might have run up the price of the books had they known he was buying them for Ursula, he commissioned a dealer in old books living in Melun to buy them for him.

    Ursula 2006

  • Desire had become very sedate since entering the magistracy; he worked hard, and it was not unlikely that he would succeed the present procureur du roi at Fontainebleau, who, they said, was to be advanced to Melun.

    Ursula 2006

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