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  • Joan had a cousin, a niece of her mother's, who was married to one Durand Lassois, at Burey en Vaux, a village near Vaucouleurs.

    The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

  • Burey, and there she stayed for six weeks, hearing bad news of the siege of Orleans by the English.

    The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

  • He lived in Burey le Petit, near to Vaucouleurs, the chief place of the district, and Jeanne already knew that it was to the captain of Vaucouleurs that she was to address herself.

    Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896

  • But a far more important witness than any of the preceding three-and-twenty was the uncle of the heroine, Durand Laxart, farm labourer at Burey-le-Petit, whom, it will be remembered, Joan first took into her confidence regarding her voices and her mission.

    Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

  • A distant relation of her mother's, one Durand Laxart, who with his wife lived in a little village then named Burey-le-Petit (now called Burey-en-Vaux), near Vaucouleurs, was the relation in whose care she placed her fate.

    Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

  • Towards the middle of January occurred the opportunity she was looking for of returning to Burey.

    The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

  • Maxey-sur-Vayse, of which the hamlet of Burey formed part.

    The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

  • Among other hamlets nestling in the hollows of the hills or rising on the high ground, it passes Burey-la-Côte, Maxey-sur-Vaise, and

    The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

  • Burey-en-Vaux, and flows on to water the beautiful meadows of

    The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

  • A distant relation of her mother's, one Durand Laxart, who with his wife lived in a little village then named Burey-le-Petit (now called Burey-en-Vaux), near Vaucouleurs, was the relation in whose care she placed her fate.

    Joan of Arc Ronald Sutherland Gower 1880

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