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  • After that the "pompiers," all in uniform, each man carrying his instrument; they didn't play as they came up the aisle, stopped their music at the door; but when they did begin -- I don't know exactly at what moment of the mass -- it was something appalling.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • No doubt there will be other incidental discoveries on my next working trip to London, but I shall long remember this as the summer of Sèvres, of Chu Teh-chun — and, incidentally, of the 11ème Cie. des sapeurs-pompiers.

    Sèvres 2009

  • The Tumbrel Diaries: Grand bal des sapeurs-pompiers skip to main | skip to sidebar

    Grand bal des sapeurs-pompiers 2009

  • Parisian sapeurs-pompiers, by contrast, as if by some outrageous process of admittedly no less fetishistic typecasting, are mostly lithe, elegant, sinuous, and beautiful.

    Grand bal des sapeurs-pompiers 2009

  • There were shouts for a hose, for more water, even as the pompiers sent streams into the building.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Although we were 6km from the nearest town, les pompiers (the paramedic ambulance service attached to the fire brigade) arrived within 10 minutes.

    The glory that is the NHS Not a sheep 2008

  • Although we were 6km from the nearest town, les pompiers (the paramedic ambulance service attached to the fire brigade) arrived within 10 minutes.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Ils sont, peut-etre, les pompiers nus? lolcatburglar says:

    I spends all my time in pursuit of virtue - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • There were shouts for a hose, for more water, even as the pompiers sent streams into the building.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • There were shouts for a hose, for more water, even as the pompiers sent streams into the building.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

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