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His maternal grandparents, Camille and Marcel, lived in a Saint Puy farmhouse called the Oratoire and the young Pierre would visit them every school holiday.
Pierre Koffmann: 'Not enough British chefs cook from the heart' 2010
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One small medallion depicting praying hands from L 'Oratoire de St. Joseph.
Jumper Gita M. Smith 2010
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It was at the Oratoire that he earned the rudimentary elements of cookery and the rhythm of the seasons: trout, wild mushrooms and snails in the spring; melons, apricots and crayfish in the summer; hares, pheasants and ortolan in the autumn; ducks, geese and rabbit in the winter.
Pierre Koffmann: 'Not enough British chefs cook from the heart' 2010
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In 1990, Koffmann wrote Memories of Gascony, reminiscences and recipes from the Oratoire accompanied by dewy photographs of the soft countryside.
Pierre Koffmann: 'Not enough British chefs cook from the heart' 2010
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Oratoire, where this woman goes to sermon, for she is a Protestant.
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Oratoire, where this woman goes to sermon, for she is a Protestant.
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At the foot of the short street St. Agricol, in the Rue Calade, is the Oratoire, built in 1730.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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-- He is accompanied by another Deputy, who was what is called Pere de la Oratoire before the revolution -- that is, in a station nearly approaching to that of an under-master at our public schools; only that the seminaries to which these were attached being very numerous, those employed in them were little considered.
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Napoléon into the Place de l'Opéra; the Avenue de l'Impératrice into the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne; the Boulevard Voltaire into the Boulevard de Belfort; the Rue Magnan into the Rue d'Angoulême-Saint-Honoré (its old name); the Rue Billault into the Rue de l'Oratoire-du-Roule, also its old appellation; while there has been
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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In this neighbourhood, 1½ mile northwards from the barracks of the Oratoire, by a road through gardens and fields, are the village and church of St. André, of which the principal feature is the west portal, constructed at the expense of the inhabitants in 1549, and ornamented by Gentil.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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