ermitage

She wrote him tender letters inviting him to dine with her, or to meet some of her friends, assuring him that in her _ermitage_ he might feel perfectly at home, and that she regarded him as one of the most excellent friends Heaven had preserved for her.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

Balzac's parents having moved from Villeparisis to Versailles, he had an excellent opportunity of seeing the Duchess while visiting them, as she was living at that time in the Grand-Rue de Montreuil No. 65, in a pavilion which she called her _ermitage_.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

Je suis très sensible à votre amicale invitation, et je serai heureux de visiter cet été votre ermitage de Foxholes.

Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. John Knox Laughton 1872

but what of this field? what brings an orthodox chapel and its retinue of monks here, to this tiny corner of france? what is the tale behind the discreet brass sign bearing the words russe ermitage orthodox, the turquoise of its domes nestled behind shady pine trees, an anachronism, an exile of revolution?

off the beaten track - hilaire le grand, a Russian detour: Bluestocking 2009