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  • And although some Armenian Dragoman, a restless spy like all his race, occasionally remarked voila un Persan diablement degage, none, except those who were entrusted with the secret, had any idea of the part I was playing.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • (From the inedited Letters of Joseph IL, published at Paris, by Persan, 1822.)

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • They -- the woman and her probable lover, who never once had been suspected, and never since been heard of -- drove as far as Persan -

    The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935

  • In the little hamlet of Persan an old Frenchman sitting on a rustic seat before the village inn, removed his pipe from his mouth long enough to call,

    Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • At the close of this tragedy the Baron de Vitry received the wages of his brutality, and found himself before sunset a Marshal of France: while Du Hallier his brother became his successor as Captain of the Royal Guard; and Persan, the husband of his sister, who had also assisted in the massacre of Concini, was recompensed by the lieutenancy of the Bastille, and entrusted with the safe keeping of the Prince de Conde.

    The Life of Marie de Medicis Pardoe, Julia 1890

  • The Marechale d'Ancre had been committed to the Bastille on the 29th of April, lightly dressed, despoiled of all her ornaments, and without the most trifling pecuniary resource; so thoroughly destitute, indeed, of the common necessaries of life that she was indebted to Madame Persan, the wife of the lieutenant of the fortress, for a couple of changes of body-linen.

    The Life of Marie de Medicis Pardoe, Julia 1890

  • Vision prophétique d'un Persan qui ne dort pas toujours.

    The Eve of the French Revolution 1869

  • It was absolutely essential that he should be speedily cured of his wound; and that real motive covering his weariness and long-felt disgust, he did not, like Persan, Bouteville, and Vauban, join the Prince in Flanders.

    Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

  • Royal Guard; and Persan, the husband of his sister, who had also assisted in the massacre of Concini, was recompensed by the lieutenancy of the Bastille, and entrusted with the safe keeping of the Prince de

    The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2 Julia Pardoe 1833

  • April, lightly dressed, despoiled of all her ornaments, and without the most trifling pecuniary resource; so thoroughly destitute, indeed, of the common necessaries of life that she was indebted to Madame Persan, the wife of the lieutenant of the fortress, for a couple of changes of body-linen.

    The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2 Julia Pardoe 1833

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