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'Tentation' was produced in the year 1860, also well known in this country under the title 'Led Astray'; then followed 'Montjoye' (1863), etc.
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'Tentation' was produced in the year 1860, also well known in this country under the title 'Led Astray'; then followed 'Montjoye'
Monsieur De Camors — Complete Octave Feuillet 1855
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But Raimbault declares this "Walpurgis Night" passage "perfectly original", reminding him of "the great Goethe himself and certain pages of La Tentation de Saint-Antoine by our Flaubert".
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The next section was somewhat bafflingly entitled "La Tentation Moderne."
The Born Rebel Artist Golding, John 2008
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In her recent book "La Tentation Allemagne," French author Yvonne Bollmann infers that missing postal codes in Germany's border areas are reserved for the lost territories of Silesia, east Prussia, the Sudetenland and Alsace-Lorraine.
City On The Edge 2008
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A stand held a copy (surely it was a copy?) of Rodin's sinister little Tentation de Saint Antoine.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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"Have you ever read La Tentation de Saint Antoine?" he asked in a low voice.
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933
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After he had eaten, he picked up the "Tentation de Saint Antoine," that lay on the cot beside his immovable legs, and buried himself in it, reading the gorgeously modulated sentences voraciously, as if the book were a drug in which he could drink deep forgetfulness of himself.
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933
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Flaubert's _Tentation_ is the leader of the chorus of the Seven Deadly
Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899
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Compare _Le Rêve_ with _La Tentation_ or _Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier_; compare _Madame Bovary_ with _Germinie Lacerteux_; even compare _L'Éducation Sentimentale_, that voyage to the Cythera of
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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