Vigoureux

There you will find that in September, 1857, there passed through the place a troupe of travelling performers, consisting of nine persons, with the caravans, under the management of a man known as Vigoureux, nicknamed the Grasshopper. "

Secret des Champdoce. English ��mile Gaboriau 1852

Three months earlier a tailor named Vigoureux, whose wife secretly practised magic, had entertained a few friends to dinner, amongst whom was an intimate of his wife's, named Marie Bosse.

The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

La Vigoureux betrayed others, and these others again.

The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

Vigoureux, if only for old sake's sake; for it was, I believe, the first you entered when you came to the Islands.

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Major Vigoureux found an old pipe on the mantel-shelf, dived in the tobacco jar for a few dry crumbs, filled, and lit and stamped out a spark that had dropped on the hearth-rug.

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Vigoureux delighted in them -- were they not his name-flower?

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"I had no idea that Major Vigoureux -- er -- went in for this sort of thing, or I'd have done myself the pleasure of visiting his garden."

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"You are Major Vigoureux?" she asked in a quick whisper, leaning forward over him.

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Vigoureux -- no longer in his first youth, but still a man of handsome presence -- had first arrived in the Islands to take over his command,

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Commissioner's visit had obviously been projected before the receipt of it, and at the worst it would enable him to call quits with Vigoureux.

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903