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Examples
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The move was enough to decisively shake Van Paassen and Ferrand Prevot, but Compton held on, trailing by just a few seconds through the whole second lap before rejoining the two leaders on the third.
Katie Compton wins finale as Sanne Van Paassen claims 2010-11 World Cup 2011
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Their mother, Marietjie van der Merwe, must have been close to her own brother, Schalk, and his wife Anna Prevot.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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He asserts that the Prevot and des Pres families became close on the Cape-bound voyage. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Most surprising for a woman who lived through the turn of the eighteenth century, Anna Prevot survived childbirth 17 times.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Gerrit and his second wife, Maria Prevot, appear in the 1731 opgaaf and in Governor de la Fontaine's detailed survey of the colonists, in both cases with six minor children, including four from van Wyk's first marriage. 33 De la Fontaine describes the household as indebted and "living with livestock in the veld," but the couple reported a small grain harvest that year, so they cannot have been itinerant.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Though there is no evidence to suggest that Anna Prevot and Schalk van der Merwe's children thought of themselves as Huguenot, or part Huguenot, little more than French surnames link other descendents of the refugees to a particular Huguenot identity among the colonists at large.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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The crowd shouted their agreement with Director Prevot, some waving their hats, as Dalton had instructed them to do.
Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999
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Director Prevot, from the Office of Cultural Amity, spoke from a balcony above a large crowd in one of the city squares.
Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999
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Review_, and the _London Magazine_, for the smallest one of which he received more money than for the huge translation of Prevot two years previous.
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-- "And there are also the Abbes Prevot and d'Olivet."
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