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Sainte-Menehould

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  • Arriving at Sainte-Menehould at half-past three o'clock, we were allowed to leave the carriage for the first time since six in the morning.

    The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912

  • Two days subsequently the Court were informed that the Prince de Conde and the Duc de Nevers had taken Mezieres and Sainte-Menehould, upon which the newly-raised troops received orders to join M. de Praslin, who, with the remainder of the army, was concentrating his forces at Vitry.

    The Life of Marie de Medicis Pardoe, Julia 1890

  • The general announced, moreover, in the confidence of his sublime ignorance, that a column of one hundred thousand men was on the way from Grand-Pre to attack them, while another, of sixty thousand, was coming up by the way of Sainte-Menehould.

    The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

  • Barère, consequently, becomes a paid spy and pamphleteer; Drouet, the postmaster, who arrested the royal family at Varennes, becomes sub-prefect at Sainte-Menehould; Jean-Bon Saint-André, one of the

    The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • For the rumour of him flies abroad; and men run to and fro in fright and anger: Chalons sends forth exploratory pickets, coming from Sainte-Menehould, on that.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Clermont, Sainte-Menehould, Varennes especially, ye Towns of the Night of Spurs; tremble ye!

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • They lounged long enough, already, at Sainte-Menehould; lounged and loitered till our

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • "Comrades insulted at Sainte-Menehould; King and Country calling on the brave;" then gives the fire-word, Draw swords.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • And thus the new Berline rolls; and Drouet and Guillaume gallop after it, and Dandoins's Troopers or Trooper gallops after them; and Sainte-Menehould, with some leagues of the King's Highway, is in explosion; -- and your Military thunder-chain has gone off in a self-destructive manner; one may fear with the frightfullest issues!

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Unnotable hum of sweet human gossip rises from this Village of Sainte-Menehould, as from all other villages.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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