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Voices in the boats behind began to curse loudly; for "Malbrouck" was no popular air with the English.
Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Then I ask Rosalin to sing to me, and she sing "Malbrouck," like her father learn it in Kebec.
The Skeleton On Round Island From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874
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Dora sang every French song she knew, – "A la Claire Fontaine" ( "At the Clear Fountain"), "Malbrouck," and "Entre Paris et Saint -
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Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck.
Les Miserables 2008
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France, -- _Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre_, _En roulant ma Boule roulant_, _A la Claire Fontaine_, and others -- and these airs simple, pleasing, a little sad, have become characteristic of French Canada.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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_Malbrouck s'en va-t-en-guerre_, we have a song which was sung in the time of the _Grand Monarque_.
Canada J. G. Bourinot
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Rivers still goes off to the woods chanting the Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre which his ancestors sang in the days of Blenheim and Oudenarde.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916
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Then he broke off: and in a childish fit of temper he played _Malbrouck s'en va t'en guerre_ with one finger, got up from the piano, faced the audience, and said:
Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905
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Christophe was unnerved by the noise in the hall, and stopped suddenly half-way through a movement: and he looked jeeringly at the audience, who were startled into silence, and played _Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre_!
Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905
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Ghost Girl, Malicious Gossip, Water, and the host joined, we sat for some time singing "Malbrouck se va t'en guerre," "La Carmagnole," and other songs of France.
White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900
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