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[7] A l'assemblée de la société de New-Yorck, du 9 novembre 1787, il a été arrêté qu'on donneroit une medaille d'or pour le meilleur discours qui seroit prononcé a l'ouverture du college de New-Yorck sur l'injustice et la cruaute de la traite des nègres, et sur les funestes effets de l'esclavage.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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I should have awarded them the medaille d'honneur; an etching of a man's head, a large engraving of the Virgin and Infant Jesus from the Salon Carre at the Louvre, and the drawing which represents --
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Beginning with the French decorations, there were fifty-one alumni who received the croix de guerre; fifteen, the fourrargère croix de guerre; five, the medaille militaire; three, the fourrargere medaille militaire; twelve, the Legion d 'Honneur; and ten, the
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Grande medaille d'honneur at the International Exhibition in Paris.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913
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Essai sur l'origine, la signification et les privileges de la medaille ou croix de Saint Benoit, 12mo (Poitiers, 1862); L'Eglise romaine contre les accusations du P. Gratry (Le Mans, 1870); Deuxieme defense (Paris, 1870); Troisieme defense, Eng. tr.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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I should have awarded them the medaille d'honneur; an etching of a man's head, a large engraving of the Virgin and Infant Jesus from the Salon Carre at the
The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre) — Complete Ren�� Bazin 1892
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Did not the members of the French Academy -- the highest literary institution in the world -- strike a gold medal in his honour, with the inscription, "La medaille du poete moral et populaire"?
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1891
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French say, le revers de la medaille, and serfage generally appeared under a form very different from that which I have just depicted.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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Lieutenant-Colonel Kraefting, de vous remettre cette lettre; et en même temps une medaille d'or, comme une marque de notre bienveillance et de notre protection, que vous assurera toujours une conduite meritoire.
Life of William Carey George Smith 1876
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Did not the members of the French Academy -- the highest literary institution in the world -- strike a gold medal in his honour, with the inscription, "La medaille du poete moral et populaire"?
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Samuel Smiles 1858
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