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In French we have: (1) L'origine ne se désoriginalisera jamais de son originalité; (2) A la santé de celle, qui tient la sentinelle devant la citadelle de votre coeur!
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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The house was old; it had been a grand mansion once, before the days of the Revolution, and had probably been the residence of some of the stiff old worthies whose portraits hung in dreary dignity in the disused dusty galleries of the _château_, which now, turned into a _citadelle_, stood upon a high point of the cliffs commanding the town.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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At the next section sat the officers of the _citadelle_, a passing general, and at the left hand of the commandant, Monsieur Dellahousse and the mild lieutenant.
The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935
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She got up quickly and flew back to the other barracks, jumping the deep pools of water and mud and the little heaps of soiled snow, started up the car and drove back to the _citadelle_ for lunch.
The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935
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There was an hour yet before dinner and she wandered out into the corridors to explore the _citadelle_.
The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935
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"He dislikes it intensely when you talk to the commandant of the citadelle."
The Happy Foreigner 1920
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She got up quickly and flew back to the other barracks, jumping the deep pools of water and mud and the little heaps of soiled snow, started up the car and drove back to the citadelle for lunch.
The Happy Foreigner 1920
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There was an hour yet before dinner and she wandered out into the corridors to explore the citadelle.
The Happy Foreigner 1920
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At the next section sat the officers of the citadelle, a passing general, and at the left hand of the commandant, Monsieur Dellahousee and the mild lieutenant.
The Happy Foreigner 1920
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Until then, please stay in the citadelle in case I need you.
The Happy Foreigner 1920
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