Vidame

The Vidame was a Chevalier de Valois raised to the tenth power, invested with all the prestige of wealth, enjoying all the advantages of high position.

The Jealousies of a Country Town Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The Vidame was a Chevalier de Valois raised to the tenth power, invested with all the prestige of wealth, enjoying all the advantages of high position.

The Collection of Antiquities Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Now the name "Vidame" reminded me that a "Vidame" was the lay protector of a Cathedral Chapter in feudal times, so the name gave me a renewed pleasure.

First and Last Hilaire Belloc 1911

He belonged, through his mother, to the family of Maulincour, and the old Baronne de Maulincour, the friend of the Vidame de Pamiers, was then living in the centre of the faubourg Saint – Germain.

A Marriage Contract 2007

The Vidame of Amiens saw that not a moment was to be lost.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

"You keep madame waiting, Monsieur le Vidame," I said, "and her business is of vital import."

Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

The door was again closed, and he approached the King as before, and announced to him the consent and the thanks of the Vidame.

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"I mean that mademoiselle will die if the Vidame reaches Paris, and I shall be lost!"

Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

After this, the King very briefly proposed that the Vidame de Chartres should be received into the order.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

At the same moment, the household troops and others, profiting by a movement so bold, followed the Vidame and his men, and all escaped together to Ghent, led on by the Vidame, to whose sense and courage the safety of these troops was owing.

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