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  • “Monsieur l'abbe,” I replied, “when I hear from the pulpit the language of opera-comique, I will play music appropriate to it, and not before!”

    Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

  • Ouvrage tres utile aux personnes des deux sexes pour le salut de leurs ames, par l'abbe Bernier etc. Rome, 1785 Au Vatican de l'Imprimerie du

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • LEMOINE-LICHTENBERGER, Trois familiers du Grand Conde, l'abbe

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Bourdon et la Baie d'Hudson (Quebec, 1896); GOSSELIN, Jean Bourdon et son ami l'abbe de Saint-Sauveur (1904); The Jesuit Relations and

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • The Abbe Fouquet became so kind and good-natured, that Gourville said to him, "Take care, monsieur l'abbe; if you are so tender, you will be carved and eaten."

    Louise de la Valliere Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • "What can I do to serve you, monsieur l'abbe?" said he.

    The Vicomte De Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • "But do wait, Saillard; don't you see that Monsieur l'abbe is turning it over in his mind?" said Madame Saillard; "don't disturb him."

    Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • "Beg pardon, Monsieur l'abbe, I did," she said; "it must have gone out."

    The Celibates Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • "Beg pardon, Monsieur l'abbe, I did," she said; "it must have gone out."

    The Vicar of Tours Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • "Isn't she clever, that Elisabeth of mine?" cried Saillard, comprehending more clearly than Monsieur l'abbe the rapid undermining, like the path of a mole, which his daughter had undertaken.

    Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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