Montbard

I used to have stacks of penfriends when I was younger, Monique who lived in Montbard in France, Christine from Ripon in the UK and one in India who lived on Chandni Chowk Street in Delhi and, shame on me, I can't even remember her name now, but how I wish I'd kept her letters.

As Good as a Yarn With You 2008

I used to have stacks of penfriends when I was younger, Monique who lived in Montbard in France, Christine from Ripon in the UK and one in India who lived on Chandni Chowk Street in Delhi and, shame on me, I can't even remember her name now, but how I wish I'd kept her letters.

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I used to have stacks of penfriends when I was younger, Monique who lived in Montbard in France, Christine from Ripon in the UK and one in India who lived on Chandni Chowk Street in Delhi and, shame on me, I can't even remember her name now, but how I wish I'd kept her letters.

As Good as a Yarn With You 2008

The General finding himself, on his return from Egypt, at Montbard, where he had passed several years of his childhood, had sought with the greatest care for his companions in school and mischief, and had found several, with whom he had talked gayly and freely of his early frolics and his schoolboy excursions.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

He seems to have been fondly attached to her, and felt deeply her death at Montbard in 1769.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE (1707-1788), French naturalist, was born on the 7th of September 1707, at Montbard (Côte d'Or), his father,

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

There is also a bronze statue of him here. 3½ miles from Montbard is the abbey of Fontenay, founded in 1118; now a paper mill.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

His parents were Tescelin, lord of Fontaines, and Aleth of Montbard, both belonging to the highest nobility of Burgundy.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

James Bruce, of Kinnaird, on his return from Abyssinia in 1773, spent some time with Buffon at his château in Montbard, and placed at his disposal several of the remarkable discoveries he had made during his travels.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

The General finding himself, on his return from Egypt, at Montbard, where he had passed several years of his childhood, had sought with the greatest care for his companions in school and mischief, and had found several, with whom he had talked gayly and freely of his early frolics and his schoolboy excursions.

Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895