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Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne.
Les Miserables 2008
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Marius had beaten the whole country; he had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to
Les Miserables 2008
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And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality.
Les Miserables 2008
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I think that he has recently been keeping a little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or Montfermeil.
Les Miserables 2008
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He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles.
Les Miserables 2008
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The other end, which surrounds the church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil.
Les Miserables 2008
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Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water.
Les Miserables 2008
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When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not encounter him in the principal street of Chelles.
Les Miserables 2008
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The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the country and had been there before.
Les Miserables 2008
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TWENTY years later, Hilda had already set off to be with her sister in a convent at Chelles, in France, and may have spent a year there when Bishop Aidan of Lindisfarne asked her to return to Northumbria as a nun.
Nuns who played key roles in helping the nation to get the abbey habit 2007
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