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Examples
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I am not at all certain, as Mr. Wilkinson is, that the Great Pyramid is merely an example of "folies de grandeur."
Beyond the Pharaohs Joseph Manning 2011
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Les dessinateurs humoristiques sont sensibles aux folies du monde.
Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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What is it about the Amazon that inspires folies de grandeur?
ianmcdonald: veg talk, and some books ianmcdonald 2010
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What is it about the Amazon that inspires folies de grandeur?
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"Les folies sont les seules choses que l'on ne regrette jamais."
Archive 2009-02-15 2009
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Vous pourrez trouver des tas de jeux concours gratuits pour gagner des centaines de cadeaux gratuitement alors pourquoi vous priver ? quand c'est entierement gratuit et que vous pouvez avoir des cadeaux de folies
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However, except for two folies in Rouen, none were ever constructed.
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But her earlier novels, The Comforters, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and most of all The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, have a minimalist sinewy elegance enough to excuse any subsequent folies des grandeurs.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2007
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But her earlier novels, The Comforters, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and most of all The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, have a minimalist sinewy elegance enough to excuse any subsequent folies des grandeurs.
Archive 2007-10-01 Tim Stretton 2007
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However, except for two folies in Rouen, none were ever constructed.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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