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  • Aux Anciens Canadiens operates in the oldest house in the city, which was once the home of Philippe-Aubert de Gaspé, the author of the novel from which the restaurant derives its name.

    WSJ Article 2009

  • Retired workers don't leave the company; they join its Club des Anciens — "the ancients" — which meets for monthly lunches and yearly trips and is a living library of company history and wisdom.

    From Hermes to Eternity Jacobs, Laura 2007

  • Fumaroli, Marc (ed), (2001), La Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, Paris: Gallimard Folio.

    18th Century French Aesthetics Morizot, Jacques 2006

  • The “Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes” had exposed the treasures of classical art and scholarship to a new critical evaluation of their intrinsic value.

    ENLIGHTENMENT HELLMUT O. PAPPE 1968

  • Encyclopédie, in the article, “Anciens,” called it an ingenious sophism, equivalent to the pleasantry, le monde est si vieux qu'il radote (“the world is so old it drivels”).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968

  • The Anciens received their unconstitutional tirade in stunned silence, but the Five Hundred refused to hear him out; rising from their places with shouts of “Hors la loi” some Deputies even drew daggers.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The new regime wished to disguise their assumption of power under every appearance of constitutional legality, and this involved winning a favorable majority vote in both the Anciens and the Cinq-Cents.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The Anciens received their unconstitutional tirade in stunned silence, but the Five Hundred refused to hear him out; rising from their places with shouts of “Hors la loi” some Deputies even drew daggers.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The new regime wished to disguise their assumption of power under every appearance of constitutional legality, and this involved winning a favorable majority vote in both the Anciens and the Cinq-Cents.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Anciens que Modernes relatifs, à l'Histoire de la Vie des Hommes célèbres. 1 vol.imp. 8vo., double columns; about 900 pages.

    Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849 Various

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