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  • Jonathan Berger/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images People took photos with their cellphones near the Place Saint-Lambert in Liege after a man armed with grenades and an assault rifle attacked holiday shoppers.

    Belgian Holiday Shoppers Attacked 2011

  • Virginia Mayo/Associated Press A police officer directed a man away from a commercial street after the attack in the busy Place Saint-Lambert, the central entry point to downtown shopping streets.

    Belgian Holiday Shoppers Attacked 2011

  • The Place Saint-Lambert and the nearby Place du Marche host Liege's annual Christmas market, which consists of 200 tiny shops and attracts some 1.5 million visitors a year.

    Belgian Holiday Shoppers Attacked 2011

  • The relationship with Saint-Lambert ended on a sour note when Emilie told him that she was pregnant.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • The love affair was fraught, Saint-Lambert had been the lover of marquise de Boufflers, the mistress of King Stanislaus of Poland, father-in-law of Louis XV.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, “Soult, what do you see in the direction of Chapelle – Saint-Lambert?”

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Saint-Lambert, the delicate and scholarly poet; Thomas, grave and thoughtful, shining by his character and intellect, but forgetting the graces which were at that time so essential to brilliant success; the eloquent Abbe Raynal; and the Chevalier de Chastellux, so genial, so sympathetic, and so animated.

    The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

  • She took refuge from these in the life-long friendship of Saint-Lambert, for whom Mme. Necker has usually a gracious message.

    The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

  • The Abbé Delille and Saint-Lambert began to write poems of nature which would have shocked Wordsworth; but if their form is often contorted and absurd, they at least show a desire for simplicity in their choice of a subject.

    Introduction 1920

  • Saint-Lambert, the poet, observed that "it must be acknowledged that one can say nothing good about innocence without being a little corrupted," and Duclos added "or of modesty without being impudent."

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

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