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  • As a source of information on the economic and social condition of a country, the cahiers are the most wonderful collection of documents available for the historian.

    The French Revolution A Short History 1893

  • Paris -- the stronghold of the Roman faith -- the reformed ventured, in face of a vast numerical majority against them, to urge in the Hôtel-de-Ville the insertion of their remonstrances in the "cahiers" of the city.

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • Highsmith left 8,000 pages of diaries and ­ "cahiers," but as Joan Schenkar notes in "The Talented Miss Highsmith," she forged, fabricated and altered where necessary, just like her antihero Ripley. ­

    NYT > Home Page By JEANETTE WINTERSON 2009

  • Perched over our books and our cahiers, * we were intoxicated by the honey-like perfume that the flowers emitted; it made us forget the stress and transformed us into little worker bees.

    Lettres de ma Terrasse 2009

  • I find myself sewing odd garments (using "holey items" from the give-away clothes pile), making home-made notebooks from my children's old cahiers* (a chichi* store-bought notebook will never again have the same charm!), and trying to erase ... erase ... erase! the years of "hard living".

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • I find myself sewing odd garments (using "holey items" from the give-away clothes pile), making home-made notebooks from my children's old cahiers* (a chichi* store-bought notebook will never again have the same charm!), and trying to erase ... erase ... erase! the years of "hard living".

    empreinte de pied - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • I find myself sewing odd garments (using "holey items" from the give-away clothes pile), making home-made notebooks from my children's old cahiers* (a chichi* store-bought notebook will never again have the same charm!), and trying to erase ... erase ... erase! the years of "hard living".

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Les nouveaux cahiers 86 (Autumn, 1986): 5 – 14; Kayserling, Meyer.

    Learned Women in Traditional Jewish Society. 2009

  • In 1929, on the hundred and fortieth anniversary of the Estates General of 1789, Brunschvicg helped organize the Etats Généraux du Féminisme, complete with cahiers de doléances, or grievances, presented by French women to the nation as a whole.

    C��cile Brunschvicg. 2009

  • What the real lesson here is that the old "cahiers du cinema" way of using auteur theory doesn't work with Pixar.

    Pete Docter Developing New Pixar Film For 2013/2014, Not Monsters Inc 2 | /Film 2009

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