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Examples
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Haider Ackermann's show was at 10: 30 a.m. on the Quai Malaquais, which is a few steps from Dries van Noten's shop, and by my calculation of such things, I could shop for a few minutes before I went to Ackermann.
On the Runway 2009
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Mailer promoted his work in the US; Malaquais translated The Naked and the Dead into French.
Norman Mailer: 'Deer Park' Letters Mailer, Norman 2009
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Malaquais escaped to Venezuela in 1943 and eventually came to the US.
Norman Mailer: 'Deer Park' Letters Mailer, Norman 2009
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Maybe you're right, probably you're right — I've had the argument with [Jean] Malaquais [11] many times — but to me the fact remains that the more the experience the better the chance to come up with something fortunate.
Norman Mailer: 'Deer Park' Letters Mailer, Norman 2009
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You see, I was a Marxist for a number of years, not as good or thorough, nor certainly so devoted a Marxist as yourself, although my friend [Jean] Malaquais is more than your match when it comes to Marxist culture, and I was his disciple for a period, and eventually turned away from his thought because I found it — and this word will infuriate you — unendurably arid.
Norman Mailer: Letters to Jack Abbott Mailer, Norman 2009
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[11] Born Wladimir Malacki to secular Jewish parents in Poland, Malaquais (1908 – 1998) was a laborer, soldier (fighting with a Marxist militia in the Spanish civil war and with France during World War II), and writer whose novels about European itinerants, among them Les Javanais and Planète sans visa, were greatly admired in Europe.
Norman Mailer: 'Deer Park' Letters Mailer, Norman 2009
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In the same sale will be Camille Pissarro's Paris view "Le Quai Malaquais et l'Institut" (1903).
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They commentated M. Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais.
Les Miserables 2008
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Sechard; but as soon as he returned, Contenson sent the porter to the Quai Malaquais to ask Monsieur de Rubempre whether he were willing to part with the furniture left in the rooms lately occupied by Madame van Bogseck.
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But that very night, at two in the morning, Asie came in a cab to the Quai Malaquais, and found the stoker of the machine smoking in his room, and reconsidering all the points of the situation here stated in a few words, like an author going over
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