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Examples
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Jerome Kerviel ran for council in his hometown of Pont l'Abbe in 2001.
Hometown Boys: 2008
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M. Gibbon, doue de la memoire la plus heureuse, et ayant tous les faits presens a la pensee, domina bien-tot la conversation; I'Abbe se facha, il s'emporta, il dit des choses dures; l'Anglois, conservant le phlegme de son pays, prenoit ses avantages, et pressoit l'Abbe avec d'autant plus de succes que la colere le troubloit de plus en plus.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994
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Oh! Monsieur l'Abbe, if you only knew what a regard
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"Monsieur, where can I find Monsieur l'Abbe Quillet?"
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Imperious! the King never before said anything so strong as that, Monsieur l'Abbe, mark that.
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You must know, Monsieur l'Abbe, that yesterday was my sister's birthday.
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"Monsieur l'Abbe," she said, without any preamble, while he begged her to sit down, "I have come to speak to you of a person in whom you take an interest, Jacqueline de Nailles."
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"May I ask, Monsieur l'Abbe, why you look at me so fixedly?"
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In 'Lys Rouge', his greatest novel, he traces the perilously narrow line that separates love from hate; in 'Opinions de M. l'Abbe Jerome Coignard' he has given us the most radical breviary of scepticism that has appeared since Montaigne.
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"An adventuress! and that is the least of it -- a heretic, Monsieur l'Abbe, a Protestant!"
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