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  • Monsieur de Listomere tranquilly returned to the reading of his paper, and presently said: — “Ah! Madame de Mortsauf is dead; your poor brother has, no doubt, gone to Clochegourde.”

    Study of a Woman 2007

  • Monsieur de Listomere tranquilly returned to the reading of his paper, and presently said: — “Ah! Madame de Mortsauf is dead; your poor brother has, no doubt, gone to Clochegourde.”

    Study of a Woman 2007

  • Clochegourde, the residence of Madame de Mortsauf, the heroine of that extraordinary work, was within a moderate walk of Tours, and the picture in the novel is presumably a copy from an original which it would be possible to-day to discover.

    A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

  • MANETTE, under the Restoration at Clochegourde in Touraine, the

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • LA BERGE (De), confessor of Madame de Mortsauf at Clochegourde, strict and virtuous.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • Clochegourde, Saint-Martin superintended the publication of his last books, which were printed at Letourmy's in Tours.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • The Duchesse de Verneuil, who owned the Clochegourde estate in Touraine, gave it, in her lifetime, to Madame de Mortsauf, reserving for herself only one room of the mansion.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • Felix de Vandenesse at last found happiness at Frapesle, a castle near Clochegourde.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • On the accession of the Bourbons he was breveted field-marshal, but did not leave Clochegourde, a castle brought to him in his wife's dowry and situated on the banks of the Indre and the Cher.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • Everything at Clochegourde bore signs of a truly English cleanliness.

    The Lily of the Valley Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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