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  • Another young player on the same scene, Jacques Brosse b. 1922, who wrote articles forVaincre also on chivalry, would go on to become a well-known writer and philosopher, an exponent of Zen Buddhism and other forms of Eastern mysticism, a leading environmentalist, and one of the pioneers of experimentation with psychoactive drugs for mystical purposes.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Another young player on the same scene, Jacques Brosse b. 1922, who wrote articles forVaincre also on chivalry, would go on to become a well-known writer and philosopher, an exponent of Zen Buddhism and other forms of Eastern mysticism, a leading environmentalist, and one of the pioneers of experimentation with psychoactive drugs for mystical purposes.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Another young player on the same scene, Jacques Brosse b. 1922, who wrote articles forVaincre also on chivalry, would go on to become a well-known writer and philosopher, an exponent of Zen Buddhism and other forms of Eastern mysticism, a leading environmentalist, and one of the pioneers of experimentation with psychoactive drugs for mystical purposes.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • His chin, like a mushroom. two at La Brosse in Xaintonge,

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • "La Brosse is an ass," cried the king, and crumpled the paper beneath his feet.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • The lord Raoul de Coucy with his banner went so far forward that he was under the prince's banner: there was a sore battle and the knight fought valiantly; howbeit he was there taken, and the earl of Joigny, the viscount of Brosse, the lord of Chauvigny and all the other taken or slain, but a few that scaped.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • [912] Monsieur de la Brosse, and the Bishop of Amiens, arrived in

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • -- (Sadler's Letters, vol.i. p. 470.) "Jacques de la Brosse, knycht," had been one of the French ambassadors, who were present at the Parliament, 11th December 1543, for treating of

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Brosse had told him what he told his friends at Tadousac.

    A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong

  • De la Brosse was the twenty-first of his order to fill that post.

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

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