Bressant

Meanwhile, I was agreeably astonished at what I chose to consider the success of "Bressant," and set to work to surpass it in another romance, called (for some reason I have forgotten) "Idolatry."

Confessions and Criticisms Julian Hawthorne 1890

I always thought 'Bressant' was an _incognito_, didn't you?

Bressant Julian Hawthorne 1890

Accordingly, I rewrote and enlarged "Bressant" in Dresden (whither I returned with my family in 1872); but -- immorality aside -- I think the first version was the best of the three.

Confessions and Criticisms Julian Hawthorne 1890

Doyle then puts the couple in touch with special detectives Remy Bressant (an invigorated Ed Harris) and Nick Poole (John Ashton), who work with Doyle in the Crimes Against Children unit.

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When I read Proust, the first footnote I came to mentioned someone wearing their hair in the style of Bressant.

Proust 2006

The annotation revealed that Bressant was famous for wearing his hair short in the front and long in the back.

Proust 2006

Bressant or Delaunay, he, blonde, pink and golden was like a successor to M. de Charlus, once dark, now completely white.

Time Regained 2003

With “the whiteness of his skin, of his old fashioned Bressant hair style, and of his starched linen” (as he is described in the opening sentences of “Ziliouk,” p. 19), Froget is an imposing character who is not only in rigid control of his own emotions, but also of the poor suspects who come before him and whom he is able to manipulate psychologically as though they were puppets.

The 13 Culprits Simenon, Georges, 1903- 2002

As usual, he was all black and white — the whiteness of his skin, of his old fashioned Bressant hair style, and of his starched linen; the blackness of his formal three-piece suit.

The 13 Culprits Simenon, Georges, 1903- 2002

Bressant retired in 1875, and died on the 23rd of January 1886.

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