Saint-Sever

In a factory of the Faubourg Saint-Sever, the minister of the interior presented to him the dean of the workmen, noted as having woven the first piece of velvet in France; and the First Consul, after complimenting this honorable old man, granted him a pension.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

The city of Saint-Sever, in the Diocese of Aire. owes its origin to an ancient Benedictine abbey, built in the tenth century by

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The course of events caused the founder to transfer his novitiate to Rouen in 1705, to the house of Saint-Yon, in the suburb of Saint-Sever, which became the centre whence the institute sent its religious into the South of France, in 1707.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

A celebrated French preacher, b. at l'Isle-Jourdain in the Comté d'Armagnac, 13 January, 1652; d. at Saint-Sever, 8 August, 1737.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

In a factory of the Faubourg Saint-Sever, the minister of the interior presented to him the dean of the workmen, noted as having woven the first piece of velvet in France; and the First Consul, after complimenting this honorable old man, granted him a pension.

Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895

Saint-Sever, the seat of the Gascon high court, followed its example,

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

Saint-Sever, perched on its upland rock, was the landward outpost of the diminished Gascon duchy.

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

The last of the French soldiers had just crossed the Seine on their way to Pont-Audemer, through Saint-Sever and Bourg-Achard, and in their rear the vanquished general, powerless to do aught with the forlorn remnants of his army, himself dismayed at the final overthrow of a nation accustomed to victory and disastrously beaten despite its legendary bravery, walked between two orderlies.

Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871

The last of the French soldiers had just crossed the Seine on their way to Pont-Audemer, through Saint-Sever and Bourg-Achard, and in their rear the vanquished general, powerless to do aught with the forlorn remnants of his army, himself dismayed at the final overthrow of a nation accustomed to victory and disastrously beaten despite its legendary bravery, walked between two orderlies.

Original Short Stories — Volume 01 Guy de Maupassant 1871

And at once resuming its course, it passed by Saint-Sever, by the

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850