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  • Those include Sunset Yellow and red Ponceau 4R, the so-called azo dyes that give Irn-Bru its hyper-orange sheen.

    It Isn't Iron and It Isn't Brewed, But Irn-Bru Hews to Its Orange Hue 2010

  • This stone was the mark of the sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Ponceau, and, everywhere creating new lines, he pushed the sewer, in 1809, under the Rue Saint – Denis as far as the fountain of the Innocents; in

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Ponceau 4R, which is illegal in the USA and Norway, is believed to cause cancer in animals.

    Boing Boing: March 21, 2004 - March 27, 2004 Archives 2004

  • “That day at the Ponceau fountain there were wild men and women who fought with one another and formed themselves into different groups, singing little airs and love-songs.

    II. Pierre Gringoire. Book I 1917

  • “And a little below the Ponceau fountain at the Trinité, ” continued Liénarde, “there was a Passion Play acted without words.

    II. Pierre Gringoire. Book I 1917

  • Ponceau-Saint-Denys, had been constructed a fountain adorned with three sirens; and from their midst rose a tall lily stalk, from the buds and blossoms of which flowed streams of wine and milk.

    The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

  • A man killed in the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris.

    Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

  • This stone was the mark of the sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue Vielle-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled and vaulted in 1740.

    Les Miserables, Volume V, Jean Valjean 1862

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