Berny

No. Berny has been indicted, had to pay a $200,000 fine, and is awaiting trial.

Giuliani pondering gubernatorial bid 2009

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Berny, he said, spent only eight hundred francs on her wardrobe, and kept her household with nine hundred francs.

Balzac 2003

Berny listened to his expression of Imperialistic opinions tinged with Liberalism, as she listened to his confession of hopes and disappointments; and, in turn, talked with persuasive accents of those pre-Revolution days which she had known as a child.

Balzac 2003

Berny died in July, having had a last pleasure in perusing the story that immortalized her affection for the novelist.

Balzac 2003

'Are you not Berny of Auvergne?' inquired Comminges.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

Berny, of whom Madame d'Abrantes was jealous, felt that he was leaving her for a duchess?

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

Berny, he said that never, since the death of his grandmother, had he so deeply sounded the gulf of separation.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

Mme. de Berny gave Balzac money as she would have given it to a son, and thereby she saved a great soul for literature.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

Mme. de Berny gave Balzac money as she would have given it to a son, and thereby she saved a great soul for literature.

Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4 Lyndon Orr