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  • Louis XIV., where the traditions of his reign seemed still to exercise a secret influence, in order to seek at her little manor-house of Trianon new amusements and rustic pleasures, innocent and simple, and attended with no other inconvenience but the air of cliquedom and almost of mystery in which the queen's guests enveloped themselves.

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

  • "pulls off what in other hands would almost certainly descend into navel gazing hipster cliquedom as its worst, and makes it all sound as commonplace and natural as the prairie dog ... what holds all the music together is Terfry himself, who is one the most under-rated poetic talents in Canada ..."

    CBC | Top Stories News 2009

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