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  • Földes is a Hungarian name, so would be pronounced FÖL-desh; if Zeno is also pronounced à la hongroise, it's ZEH-no.

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  • Of one of his pieces -- the 'Divertissement à la hongroise' -- it is told that returning late one afternoon from a walk, he lingered beside the open window of the kitchen, in order to listen to the air which was being sung by the kitchen-maid within as she leaned against the fireplace.

    Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

  • Worthy of mention is P. Matter, La constitution hongroise, in _Annales de l'École

    The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

  • May 15 and Sept. 15, 1908, and La physionomie nouvelle de la question austro-hongroise, in _Questions

    The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

  • Rádo-Rotheld, Die ungarische Verfassung (Berlin, 1898), upon which is based A. de Bertha, La constitution hongroise

    The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

  • (_Dicrurus ater_), dip his bill and legs in red ink, cut down his tail a little, dust him all over so as to make his glossy black plumage look grey and shabby, ruffle his feathers, apply a little _pomade hongroise_ to the feathers on the back of his head, and make some of them stick out to look like a dilapidated crest, and you may flatter yourself that you have produced a very fair imitation of a black bulbul as it appears when flitting about from one tree summit to another.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • 1912; G. Louis-Jaray, Le suffrage universel en Hongrie, in _Questions Diplomatiques et Coloniales_, February 16, 1909; R. Henry, La crise hongroise, ibid.,

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  • 1910; F. de Gerando, Le radicalisme hongroise, in _Revue Politique et Parlementaire_,

    The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

  • Österreich von Jahre 1867 (L.ipzig, 1897); L. Eisenmann, L. compromis austro-hongroise (Paris,

    The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

  • The Hungarian phases of the subject are admirably presented in L. Eisenmann, L. compromis austro-hongroise (Paris,

    The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

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