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Examples
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Jacques Collin in the _Salle des Pas – Perdus_ is beyond imagining.
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Pas – Perdus_ is the largest known hall, but its nakedness is hideous, and distresses the eye.
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“Who are you?” asked the Duchess, without any pretence at politeness, as she looked at Asie from head to foot; for Asie, though she might be taken for a Baroness by Maitre Massol in the _Salle des Pas – Perdus_, when she stood on the carpet in the boudoir of the Hotel de Cadignan, looked like a splash of mud on a white satin gown.
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The home of our kings, over which you tread as you pace the immense hall known as the _Salle des Pas – Perdus_, was a miracle of architecture; and it is so still to the intelligent eye of the poet who happens to study it when inspecting the Conciergerie.
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“Put all the letters in some safe place; take out those that are most likely to compromise the ladies; come back, dressed very poorly, to the _Salle des Pas – Perdus_, and wait for my orders.”
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In the _Salle des Pas – Perdus_, between the door into the first court of the inferior class and the steps leading to the sixth, the visitor must observe the first time he goes there a doorway without a door or any architectural adornment, a square hole of the meanest type.
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In the _Salle des Pas – Perdus_ there is at this moment a beggar woman in rags, an old woman, in the very middle of the hall.
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Such a dowager could not fail to attract the notice of the black-robed natives of the _Salle des Pas – Perdus_.
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The form can best be studied in an example, and we quote, as absolutely faultless in execution, the famous "Ballade aux Enfants Perdus," composed by Théodore de Banville in 1861: --
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The great halls of the books, with artistic woodwork, were jewels of eighteenth century architecture; the Salle des Pas-Perdus of the
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 Various
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