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  • [Andre Roquet], L'Art nouveau de la peinture en fromage ou en ramequin (Marolles, 1755).

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Note 22: [Jean-André Roquet], L'Art nouveau de la peinture en fromage, ou en ramequin, inventée pour suivre le louable projet de trouver graduellement des façons de peindre inférieures à celles qui existent (Marolles, 1755). back

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Marolles, the shabby old southwest corner of the city, was now scheduled for the bulldozers, and that district — gemütlich and low-priced — was where the counter-culture had gravitated.

    The Luxembourg Run Ellin, Stanley 1977

  • So the counter-culture was rallying its forces, and Trude and her Alain who had a pad on the rue de Renard in the heart of Marolles were leading members of the general staff.

    The Luxembourg Run Ellin, Stanley 1977

  • On the other side of the bridge, the canal wanders peacefully along through endless green meadows, bordered with poplars, to Marolles, a little village where there is the first écluse on the way to Paris.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • We raced along the bank as fast as we could, but the canal turns a great deal, and a bend prevented our seeing the stag, with the hounds at his heels, galloping down the slope and finally jumping into the canal, just where it widens out and makes a sort of lake between our hamlet of Bourneville and Marolles.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • The wheelwright at Marolles had never seen anything of the kind, had no idea _what_ we wanted.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • Marolles and all our household arriving in hot haste, and groups of led horses and valets de chiens in their green coats half-way up the slope.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • W. sent him straight off again to the mayor of Marolles -- our big village -- to know if his information was correct, and how many people we must provide for.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • He too had woollen socks over his shoes, and said the going was something awful, the "Montagne de Marolles" a sheet of ice; he had fallen twice, in spite of his socks and pointed stick.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

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