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Racine, by reading Montaigne, Rabelais, or Pascal; perhaps by sermons, perhaps by some of those songs that Coulanges was always singing — she must have imbibed so much that was sane and wholesome unconsciously that, when she took up her pen, it followed unconsciously the laws she had learnt by heart.
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Mme. de Coulanges adds her graceful, vivacious, and sparkling presence.
The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
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Mme. de La Fayette, where she found La Rochefoucauld, Cardinal de Retz, sometimes Segrais, Huet, La Fontaine, Moliere, and other wits of the time; to sup with Mme. de Coulanges and Mme. Scarron.
The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
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Mme. de Coulanges dying and her husband in grief, seemed somehow out of the order of things.
The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
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The best society lavished its attentions on me; Coulanges, whose flatteries are so amusing, never left us for a moment.
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His dispatches mention that a crew under one De Coulanges, with Indians and free blacks had been massacred by the Indians.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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The old friendship that had existed when Mme. Scarron was living in such elegant and mysterious seclusion, devoting herself to the king's children, and finding her main diversion in the little suppers enlivened by the wit of Mme. de Sevigne and Mme. de Coulanges, and the more serious, but not less agreeable, conversation of Mme. de La Fayette, had evidently grown cool.
The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
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Scotland, and Germany; and resided some time in Paris, where he attended the lectures of Majendie, Broussais, and Louis, in medicine, and those of the elder Dupin, and Coulanges, in law.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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In reward of his services, several important seigniories were granted him (Argentenaye, Coulanges, Saint Villemer).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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It is supposed by de Coulanges that in the earliest times the dead ancestors were buried beneath the hearth.
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