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  • Viollet-le-Duc mentions it, with a drawing (article, "Pignon"), as not earlier than the year 1100, therefore about a century earlier than the rose of Chartres; it is not properly a rose, but a wheel of fortune, with figures climbing up and falling over.

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • Pignon confirms what has already been reported: that Dexia will likely break up and the French can deal with themselves.

    A Dexia Depositor's Dilemma Anne Jolis 2011

  • "It's going to be tough for this agency to keep up with the fast-evolving nature of Internet piracy," says Anne Pignon-Bormans, a French intellectual property lawyer.

    All Eyes on France as Officials Enforce New Antipiracy Law Max Colchester 2010

  • Since he was speaking to me as a customer, let's call him Monsieur Pignon.

    A Dexia Depositor's Dilemma Anne Jolis 2011

  • Since he was speaking to me as a customer, let's call him Monsieur Pignon.

    A Dexia Depositor's Dilemma Anne Jolis 2011

  • Recently, Dr. Lanctin was in Pignon, Haiti, and on his last day there he came upon a small boy, only 12 years old, who had just been brought into the hospital.

    Maria Rodale: Why the World Needs a Spiritual Health Screening Test Maria Rodale 2011

  • The last name of intellectual property lawyer Anne Pigeon-Bormans was misspelled as Pignon-Bormans in a Wednesday Marketplace article about France's new antipiracy law.

    Corrections 2010

  • Pignon," I venture, "If I do come get my money, won't that just make everything worse for you all?

    A Dexia Depositor's Dilemma Anne Jolis 2011

  • Recently, Dr. Lanctin was in Pignon, Haiti, and on his last day there he came upon a small boy, only 12 years old, who had just been brought into the hospital.

    Maria Rodale: Why the World Needs a Spiritual Health Screening Test Maria Rodale 2011

  • Pignon confides, is in Dexia's French operations, which are requesting more short-term funding than their Belgian partners can provide them.

    A Dexia Depositor's Dilemma Anne Jolis 2011

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