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  • "La classe ouvrière" in Britain was finding it hard to make ends meet, these leaflets said, while at the same "une somme enorme" was being spent on the nuptials of an obscure naval officer and a rich debutante.

    Royal wedding then, and now 2011

  • L'ouvrier veut se sentir maitre de son état, et non pas le récipient reconnaissant d'un cadeau selon l'humeur du patron, et encore, tous les patrons ne furent pas si inquiets sur le sort de leur main d'oeuvre ... vive la lutte ouvrière, camarade!

    La vie rêvée 2008

  • The "classe ouvrière"; that is, the working people in Belgium bear themselves brutally towards their employers; and by brutally, Joe, I mean brutalement - which, perhaps, when properly translated, should be roughly. '

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Unity of the socialists was achieved through the Parti socialiste section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO).

    1905, March 23-April 6 2001

  • If she soils or rumples or tears it, she descends in her little scale of dignities and becomes an ouvrière.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

  • Il n'y a pas dans tout Paris ménage plus gentil que le petit appartement au septième des POPPOT dans une cité ouvrière de ce

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various

  • The contrast in dress of the working classes with those of Paris is as conspicuously unfortunate æsthetically, as politically and socially it may be significant; ocularly, it is a substitution of a cheap, faded, and ragged imitation of bourgeois costume for the marvel of neatness and propriety which composes the uniform of the Parisian ouvrier and ouvrière.

    New York After Paris 1914

  • I was proud, and wished to tell no one; but there was an _ouvrière_ next me, in a little room, even smaller than mine, and she saw well that she could help, and that together some things might be possible that were not alone.

    Prisoners of Poverty Abroad Helen Campbell 1878

  • The work is done secretly, since they have not the simplicity either of the real _ouvrière_ or of the _grande dame_, both of whom sew openly, the one for charity, the other for a living.

    Prisoners of Poverty Abroad Helen Campbell 1878

  • "La femme devenue ouvrière, n'est plus une femme," wrote Jules Simon in

    Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future Helen Campbell 1878

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