Nesle

Believe for a truth, that the place where the people gathered together was called Nesle; there, after the case was proposed and argued, they resolved to send the oldest and most able of their learned men unto Gargantua to explain to him the great and horrible prejudice they sustained by the want of their bells.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910

Gossip said that "Nesle" was Louis's current favorite.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

The breasts of "Nesle," while reasonably adequate in size, pleasant in proportion, and tipped with large brownish areolae, were further adorned with a pair of nipple jewels that caused their settings to recede into insignificance.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

a truth, that the place wherein the people gathered together, were thus sulphured, hopurymated, moiled, and bepissed, was called Nesle, where then was, but now is no more, the oracle of Leucotia.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

A year after Nicolas Sarkozy swept into the Élysée Palace in 2007, comedian François-Xavier Gelin staged a one-man revue at Paris's Nesle theatre.

Nicolas Sarkozy: Is France falling in love again? | Peter Beaumont 2011

I have seen her make love to, and murder, her sons, in the “Tour de Nesle.”

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, 35 or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible caesura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.

Lay Morals 2005

Netherlands and MM. de Mailly-Nesle for the Duchy of Brabant the

The Guermantes Way 2003

Then, reaching the “Croix-Rouge,” she threw herself on the bed in her little room on the second floor, where there were pictures of the “Tour de Nesle.”

Madame Bovary 2003

Night was darkening over the walls, on which still shone, half hidden in the shade, the coarse colours of four bills representing four scenes from the “Tour de Nesle,” with a motto in Spanish and

Madame Bovary 2003