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C'étoit un _Servien_ échappé du bagne de Constantinople où il étoit prisonnier: il parut, pour la première fois, en habit de hussard à la cour.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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So were the eggs hussard made with fried green tomatoes and Texas quail eggs.
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(marchand de lacets); when he has him in charge, he is a bird of ill-omen (hirondelle de la Greve); when he escorts him to the scaffold, he is “groom to the guillotine” (hussard de la guillotine).
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Greve); when he escorts him to the scaffold, he is "groom to the guillotine" (hussard de la guillotine).
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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