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And, dealing with the belief that a low birthrate will result in the development of a superior type of child, he says: 'C'est une illusion qui ne résiste pas à la lumière des faits tels que les montre l'étude démographique de nos villages gascons.
Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians Halliday G. Sutherland 1921
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Montholons, the young General who out-gascons the Gascons, the wire-drawn subtle Las Cases, the melancholy Grand Marshal and his spasmodic consort -- all of them there to guard or cheer that pathetic central figure, the world's conqueror and world's exile.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898
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Howe the frenche knyghtes and gascons, suche as were taken prisoners at Juberoth ''. by the portugaloyes, were slayne by their maysters, and none escaped.
Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533, tr 1812
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