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  • Mlle. de Peyronnet must be imagined seated in the fateful chair, dreading the pain but hoping for the relief of an extraction.

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

  • On one occasion when Monsieur and Madame were starting on an afternoon excursion in the great landau, with Mlle. de Peyronnet wedged between the white pantaloons and Mme. Lamartine's skirts (I presume I might at that date have said crinoline), a deputation of ouvriers suddenly appeared.

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

  • Nothing was more fascinating than to hear Mme. de Peyronnet talk of the street-fighting in '48 and of how life went on, I had almost said, as usual, in the intervals of the fusillades.

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

  • On one occasion when Monsieur and Madame were starting on an afternoon excursion in the great landau, with Mlle. de Peyronnet wedged between the white pantaloons and Mme. Lamartine's skirts (I presume I might at that date have said crinoline), a deputation of _ouvriers_ suddenly appeared.

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • Nothing was more fascinating than to hear Mme. de Peyronnet talk of the street-fighting in '48 and of how life went on, I had almost said, as usual, in the intervals of the fusillades.

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • Mme. de Peyronnet formed part of the memorable group of Liberals of which Tocqueville was one of the most distinguished members; -- a group which from the latter part of Louis -

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • Peyronnet, never married, but remained the devoted companion of her mother.

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • Mlle. de Peyronnet must be imagined seated in the fateful chair, dreading the pain but hoping for the relief of an extraction.

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • At present all is quiet; but the thing may happen, particularly if Polignac and Peyronnet should not be put to death.

    Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883

  • Mme. de Peyronnet formed part of the memorable group of Liberals of which Tocqueville was one of the most distinguished members; ” a group which from the latter part of Louis - Philippe's reign to the break-up of the Third Empire comprised as notable a body of intellectuals as were ever brought together even in the city of Paris ” the natural home of Social intellectualism.

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

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