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The street called Quincampoix, for a long time past devoted to the operations of bankers, had become the usual meeting-place of the greatest lords as well as of discreet burgesses.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830
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La Tour lived on the rue Quincampoix in the financial district of Paris.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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His shop was located on the rue Quincampoix; a location that suggests much but again without verification.
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La Tour lived on the rue Quincampoix in the financial district of Paris.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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At eight every morning guards beat drums and lowered the barricades at Rue Quincampoix.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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At eight every morning guards beat drums and lowered the barricades at Rue Quincampoix.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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At eight every morning guards beat drums and lowered the barricades at Rue Quincampoix.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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At Quincampoix, to give himself heart, he drank three cups of coffee one after the other.
Madame Bovary 2003
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Then how many things had been spoilt or lost during their carriage from Tostes to Yonville, without counting the plaster cure, who falling out of the coach at an over-severe jolt, had been dashed into a thousand fragments on the pavements of Quincampoix!
Madame Bovary 2003
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He has been back nine or ten days, but I have heard nothing of him yet; he is constantly engaged in the Rue de Quincampoix, trying to gain money among the stock-jobbers (19th September, 1719).
The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001
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