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Plains, in a boat on the St Lawrence, where he was taking his last look at what he then called the Foulon and what the world now calls Wolfe's Cove.
The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolf William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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I was of the first at the hanging of Foulon, at the sacking of Reveillon, and at the walls of the Bastille.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall
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British boats about 4.0 A.M. before they landed and that the landing at the Foulon to climb to the Heights was made at daybreak.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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By the way, Ned, "he said, suddenly turning to Calvert," 'twas that villain Bertrand, that protégé of yours, who was carrying the head of that poor devil, Foulon, on his pike this afternoon.
Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe
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Foulon, an official grown gray in treachery and iniquity, when asked,
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger
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The head of one of your chief men -- of Foulon, Counsellor of State, borne aloft on a pike, the body dragged naked on the earth, as though 'twere some dishonored slave of Roman days.
Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe
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Thus Foulon, counsellor of state, and thus Berthier, his son-in-law, hitherto intendant of Paris, perished.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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The second anniversary of his father's death having arrived, Frank, profiting by his step-mother's absence, took a small bunch of sweet scented flowers and proceeded towards the Foulon Cemetery, where his parents were buried.
The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story John Roussel
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All good citizens were ordered, by notices affixed to it, not to go down into the garden, under pain of being treated in the same manner as Foulon and Berthier.
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Foulon said of the democracy, 'Let them eat grass.'
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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