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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Middle English forms of privy.

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  • Unfortunately, those who aren't privee or able to separate the two, can be corner into a very small box without the ability to escape.

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  • From Fordam University's History dept I have today a short selection of the Memoires of Madame Campan,left,Mémoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, suivis de souvenirs et anecdotes historiques sur les règnes de Louis XIV.

    Archive 2008-04-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • From Fordam University's History dept I have today a short selection of the Memoires of Madame Campan,left,Mémoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, suivis de souvenirs et anecdotes historiques sur les règnes de Louis XIV.

    How la Reine-Martyre Marie-Antoinette was clothed de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • We advise those who reproach Balzac for not having understood the simplicity, modesty and graces so full of charm, or often the artifice of the young girl, to please reread in the _Scenes de la Vie privee_ the portraits of Louise de

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • Yet it must have impressed Balzac, for he wanted to dedicate to her the fourth volume of the _Scenes de la Vie privee_ in placing her seal and "Diis ignotis 28 fevrier 1832" at the head of _l'Expiation_, the last chapter of _La Femme de trente Ans_, which he was writing when her letter arrived, but Madame de Berny objected, so he saved the only copy of that dedication and wished

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • An enthusiastic reader of the _Scenes de la Vie privee_, uneasy at the different turns which the mind of the author was taking in

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  • A disciple of Plato is supposed to ask his master to tell him the "namè of the privee stoon."

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  • At that time, Balzac needed money and Stahl (Hetzel) refused to insert in his book, _Scenes de la Vie privee de Animaux_ (2 vols., 1842), this story of Balzac's, who had already furnished several articles for this collection.

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • In 1833, Balzac wrote Madame Hanska that he had dedicated the fourth volume of the _Scenes de la Vie privee_ to her, putting her seal at the head of _l'Expiation_, the last chapter of _La Femme de trente

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • FALKENSTEIN, Kosciuszko (Leipzig, 1827); RYCHLICKI, Kosciuszko and the Partition of Poland (Krakow, 1872); CHODZKO, Histoire militaire, politique et privee de Kosciuszko (Paris, 1837).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

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