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  • He was intelligent, and just sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he was, in reality, only a product of Pigault – Lebrun.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • It surpassed any complications of intrigue in her favourite Pigault le Brun.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Satan Montgomery is bantered with the name of Isaiah; Miss Landon by a comparison with La Rochefoucault; and Don Trueba, with Pigault le Brun.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832 Various

  • Pigault-Lebrun, a popular but immoral novel writer, narrowly escaped lately a trip to Cayenne for one of his blasphemous publications, and owes to the protection of Madame Murat exclusively that he was not sent to keep Varennes and Beaujou company.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • Pigault-Lebrun, a popular but immoral novel writer, narrowly escaped lately a trip to Cayenne for one of his blasphemous publications, and owes to the protection of Madame Murat exclusively that he was not sent to keep Varennes and Beaujou company.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • And if you calculate the time for the above dialogue to take place—the time for Briggs and Firkin to fly to the drawing-room—the time for Miss Crawley to be astonished, and to drop her volume of Pigault le Brun—and the time for her to come downstairs—you will see how exactly accurate this history is, and how Miss Crawley must have appeared at the very instant when Rebecca had assumed the attitude of humility.

    XV. In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time 1917

  • It surpassed any complications of intrigue in her favourite Pigault le Brun.

    XV. In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time 1917

  • Pichells 12.157 speaks of a case in which beetles were expelled from the stomach; and Pigault 12.158 gives an account of a living lizard expelled by vomiting.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Pichells speaks of a case in which beetles were expelled from the stomach; and Pigault gives an account of a living lizard expelled by vomiting.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • This, Pigault, who was a loose fish and a vulgar fellow, but, as was said above, not a scoundrel, could not suffer; and he shared and shared alike with his brothers and sisters.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

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