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You, a scion of Seacombe, have proved your disdain of social distinctions by taking up with an ouvriere!
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The most important is the _Histoire de la Classe ouvriere depuis l'esclave jusqu'au Proletaire de nos Jours_, by M. Robert (du Var), four volumes.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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Berryer defended the religious associations with all the more authority because, in that same year, pleading for three carpenters who had combined to secure a suspension of work, he formally asserted the right of labour to combine (droit de coalition ouvriere), which right French law was not to recognize until 1863.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Ketteler (Ibid., 1899), a three volume work of first-class importance; IDEM, in Stimmen aus Maria Laach (1908), 550-561, an account of Ketteler's ideas on the school question and on ecclesiastical reforms; DE GIRARD, Ketteler et la question ouvriere
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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They have none of the sagaciousness of the low-born Italian, none of the wit and penetration of the French _ouvriere_.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900
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