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Heudicourt the younger, a species of very mischievous satyr, and much mixed up in grand intrigues of gallantry, made, about this time, a song upon the grand 'prevot' and his family.
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Thereupon the King burst out louder than the Marechal had, and for a whole fortnight afterwards could not help smiling whenever he saw the grand 'prevot' or any of his family.
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Heudicourt the younger, a species of very mischievous satyr, and much mixed up in grand intrigues of gallantry, made, about this time, a song upon the grand 'prevot' and his family.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 05 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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Heudicourt the younger, a species of very mischievous satyr, and much mixed up in grand intrigues of gallantry, made, about this time, a song upon the grand 'prevot' and his family.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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Thereupon the King burst out louder than the Marechal had, and for a whole fortnight afterwards could not help smiling whenever he saw the grand 'prevot' or any of his family.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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Thereupon the King burst out louder than the Marechal had, and for a whole fortnight afterwards could not help smiling whenever he saw the grand 'prevot' or any of his family.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 05 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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“Villain,” cried he, “restore the effects you have stole from your master, or you shall be immediately committed to the care of the prevot.”
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But he was not a man to yield to his first impulse — this former chamberlain under the Emperor, now become a grand prevot under the Restoration.
The Honor of the Name �mile Gaboriau 2003
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The colonel, of course, in obedience to orders from the grand prevot, Monsieur de Courtornieu.
The Honor of the Name �mile Gaboriau 2003
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He ordered the grand prevot to look to this, and report all cases of disobedience.
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