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Perhaps the most successful member of haute couture's next generation, Rolland counts among his clients a number of Middle Eastern royals, while Josse and Sorbier have earned the support of social heavyweights like Ivana Trump.
Fashionably Discreet 2009
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Shortly after the crack of a November dawn, in a sandy field near the Maputo-Harare railroad in Mozambique, Jullie, Josse and Johan went to work.
A NOSE FOR TROUBLE 2007
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Some authorities, however, laugh at this story, and claim that the specimens of iron work which are shown as the early works of Matsys date from a time when he would have been only ten or twelve years old, and that they must therefore have been the work of his father, Josse Matsys, who was a locksmith.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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St-Josse, Ardenne, Cuissy, Laon, Liège, Antwerp, Varlar, Kappenberg and others were founded during the first five years of the order's existence.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Fr.m Lettice, Lat. laetitia, joy, we have Letts, Lettson, while the corresponding Joyce, Lat. jocosa, merry, has become confused with Fr. Josse (Chapter I).
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Josse made me rehearse my _rôle_, which I almost knew, as I had seen the piece often and I had an extraordinary memory.
My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884
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Josse had introduced me to a dramatic author, Lambert Thiboust, a charming man who was certainly not without talent.
My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884
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Josse, who guessed what my scruples were, exclaimed:
My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884
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When the performance was over Marc Fournier offered me, through Josse, a three years 'engagement, but I asked to be allowed to think it over.
My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884
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It must be taken, therefore, as something serious in the main; and if so taken, and read by the light reflected from M.. Whistler's more characteristically brilliant canvases, it may not improbably recall a certain phrase of M.lière's which at once passed into a proverb -- "Vous êtes orfèvre, M. Josse."
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies James McNeill Whistler 1868
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