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  • Deux maires de province se promenaient sur les boulevards de

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • I noticed also a number of intimations concerning plain Chopins and Choppins who served their country as maires and army officers.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Then he wished to know, had we maires such as he in England?

    Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

  • Sanitation first, statues afterwards, should be the maxim of its préfets and maires in these remote and behindhand regions.

    The Roof of France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

  • The most timid lady travellers may safely trust themselves to these town councillors and maires of the little villages bordering the Tarn.

    The Roof of France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

  • Yes or No. There was not such open tampering this time with the vote as there had been in the election of the deputies, but all kinds of Government influences were brought to bear on prefects, _maires_, and other official personages, especially in the villages.

    France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

  • They were the twelve deputies of the Department of the Seine, in which Paris is situated, headed by Louis Blanc, and the _maires_, with their assistants, from the twenty arrondissements.

    France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

  • He went out to Versailles to unite his efforts to those of the _maires_ and the deputies in favor of giving Paris municipal rights; but M. Thiers and his ministers were firm in their refusal.

    France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

  • Seine, -- he had under him the _maires_ of twenty Arrondissements; and thus it was in every French city.

    France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

  • And this Jake Strawe spak to the kyng heded as it hadde be to his felawe: and John Blyton that bar the maires swerd of London bad hym don of his hode while he spak to the kyng; wherfore Jake

    A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum Anonymous 1823

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