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  • Chevrel, fifteen months younger than her cousin, and bedecked with diamonds; young Rabourdin, employed in the Finance Office; Monsieur

    At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

  • Chevrel, fifteen months younger than her cousin, and bedecked with diamonds; young Rabourdin, employed in the Finance Office; Monsieur

    At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

  • Rabourdin, the wife of the head clerk, has, together with her grace and taste, the gift of amusing by the skill with which she bamboozles the dissolute des Lupeaulx.

    Balzac 2003

  • Rabourdin, the head clerk in a government department, seeks to simplify the useless machinery that clogs rather than advances the administration of the country.

    Balzac 2003

  • Rabourdin, the head clerk in a government department, seeks to simplify the useless machinery that clogs rather than advances the administration of the country.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • Rabourdin, the head clerk in a government department, seeks to simplify the useless machinery that clogs rather than advances the administration of the country.

    Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

  • Rabourdin, the chief of bureau, when he allowed himself to be won over to that official's cause by his friend Chardin des Lupeaulx, who had asked him to exert the voice of the press against Baudoyer, the rival of Rabourdin.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • Rabourdin, when they helped the poverty-stricken Zephirin Marcas.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • Colleville, had dubbed Madame Rabourdin "The Celimene of rue Duphot."

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • At the instance of the students Rabourdin and Juste he clothed the poverty-stricken Zephirin Marcas "as a politician."

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

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