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Based on a recent study by Marie-Veronique Launay-Savary and colleagues, Hôtel-Dieu, Clermont-Ferrand, France, the frequency of technical complications of adjustable gastric banding may in fact be higher than most experts think (Obesity Surgery).
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Launay, M., Le syndicalisme chrétien en France de 1885 à nos jours Desclée, 1984.
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Mademoiselle de Launay replied: "I do not know whether her imprisonment may have turned my mistress's brain, but it has not had the same effect upon me; I neither know, nor will I say anything."
The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001
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Fontenelle, warmly so by Voltaire, and not at all by Mlle. de Launay; but twenty-five years devoted to humoring the caprices and flattering the tastes of a vain and exacting patroness were not likely to develop his highest possibilities.
The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
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Princesse de Lamballe asked me if I had known the Marquis de Launay.
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He (p. 267) volunteered and served in the army from 1796 to 1802; then studied under Launay and Jeoffroy, and first attracted attention by his medallions of the Emperor Napoleon and of the Archduchess Marie
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat
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Princesse de Lamballe asked me if I had known the Marquis de Launay.
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"She believed in herself," writes Mlle. de Launay, afterward Baronne de Staal, "as she believed in God or Descartes, without examination and without discussion."
The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
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Launay and M. Flesselles, and from the destruction of the Bastille, and of the ramparts of Paris, that party had not armed itself against Louis, but against the throne.
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Launay and M. Flesselles, and from the destruction of the Bastille, and of the ramparts of Paris, that party had not armed itself against Louis, but against the throne.
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