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These contracts agree to the renunciation of the rights to hydraulic power for 40 years, following l'Ordonnance sur la compensation des pertes subies dans l'utilisation de la force hydraulique which forbids constructing any building, and any modification of the land.
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But let me finish -- during these three years, five months and fourteen days we have fought, bled and died on the literary battle-field; dined on bath-mitts and _café hydraulique_, walked past the opera-house entrance when our favorite play was on, and all that.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887
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Among these is the _belier hydraulique_, newly invented by MONTGOLFIER, by means of which a stream of water, having a few feet of declivity, can be raised to the top of a house by a single valve or sucker, so disposed as to open, to admit the water, and shut, when it is to be raised by compression.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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