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Examples
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'Retz's party are in an ill-humour on that account, and will wreak it on you if they get a chance.
A Gentleman of France Stanley John Weyman 1891
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Bos and I moved forward along the trail, figuring the deer would leave 'Retz in the dust and she'd make her way back to a point just ahead of us.
still replying to Yuletide comments hradzka 2010
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Bos and I moved forward along the trail, figuring the deer would leave 'Retz in the dust and she'd make her way back to a point just ahead of us.
still replying to Yuletide comments hradzka 2010
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Mostly in Rome, with some time in Florence and Nice in about 1900 and in the company of the Hague-born, recently divorced 23 year old Cornelie de Retz van Loo.
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Mostly in Rome, with some time in Florence and Nice in about 1900 and in the company of the Hague-born, recently divorced 23 year old Cornelie de Retz van Loo.
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Nestled within the confines of Monville's private pleasure garden, the Désert de Retz, it “stands like a solitary beacon, signaling the visitor to prepare for an encounter with the bizarre.”
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There are so many interesting things to be said about the Broken Column House and the Désert de Retz, but we'll limit them to two here.
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Mostly in Rome, with some time in Florence and Nice in about 1900 and in the company of the Hague-born, recently divorced 23 year old Cornelie de Retz van Loo.
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Cyril Connolly and Jerome Zerbe include the Desert de Retz in their book "Les Pavillons" (1962) with Zerbe remembering "goats glattering up the beautifully modulated spiral staircase" and noting that the structure was then in a "terrible state" and hoping someone would come along "with the means and taste to restore it."
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But decades of neglect saved the Désert de Retz from this common fate.
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