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  • “What!” cried Mme. Verdurin, “Do people still call in Potain?”

    Swann's Way 2003

  • It was a quaint haunt, where gathered Doctor Peters and Father Dube, and Parker Prout, the old artist who had failed in life because of too much talent, and M. M.rtin, and the venerable Potain, who had lost his mind after his wife's death, and Ovide M.rie, the curly-haired musician from Amity Street.

    Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

  • Hedge on Enodis deal swings Manitowoc Co. to loss Manitowoc completes acquisition of Potain Manitowoc closes on sale of

    WN.com - Business News 2009

  • The Potain brand is the world leader in top-slewing and self-executing tower cranes.

    unknown title 2009

  • ‘sitting’; while Dr. Cottard was a more brilliant diagnostician than Potain.

    Swann's Way 2003

  • To admit you to the 'little nucleus,' the 'little group,' the 'little clan' at the Verdurins ', one condition sufficed, but that one was indispensable; you must give tacit adherence to a Creed one of whose articles was that the young pianist, whom Mme. Verdurin had taken under her patronage that year, and of whom she said "Really, it oughtn't to be allowed, to play Wagner as well as that!" left both Planté and Rubinstein' sitting '; while Dr. Cottard was a more brilliant diagnostician than Potain.

    Swann's Way Marcel Proust 1896

  • It is far more smart to be able to say, ‘Yes, I have Potain.’”

    Swann's Way 2003

  • It is far more smart to be able to say, 'Yes, I have Potain.'"

    Swann's Way Marcel Proust 1896

  • Potain, and I should not have gone away if he had been alone. "

    The Idol of Paris Sarah Bernhardt 1884

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