sieurs

Others of high rank were identified as the sieurs d’Orville, de Genestou, de Sourin, de Beaumont, La Motte Bourgjoli, Fougeray de Vitré, and Pierre du Bosc-Douyn, called du Boullay, a senior captain in the Régiment de Poutrincourt.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Others of high rank were identified as the sieurs d’Orville, de Genestou, de Sourin, de Beaumont, La Motte Bourgjoli, Fougeray de Vitré, and Pierre du Bosc-Douyn, called du Boullay, a senior captain in the Régiment de Poutrincourt.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

The public made no objection to this application of it; but, as it was a new title, not conferred on bishops by kings, they continued to be called sieurs in edicts, declarations, ordinances and all official documents; and when the council wrote to a bishop they gave him no higher title than monsieur.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In 1764, masters from the Académie de St-Luc seized the Prussian-blue factory of sieurs Gly and d'Heure. 16 The owners turned to the Paris Academy of Sciences, asking for a determination of the nature of Prussian blue.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Note 16: Mémoire lu par Hellot écrit par sieurs Gly et d'Heure concernant son bleu de Prusse, 6 and 9 February 1765, AdS pochette. back

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Note 16: "Mémoire sur les couleurs nouveaux du sieurs Daubert et Maille," [ca. 1780], AN F/12/1332. back

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Procès-verbal des opérations de teintures faites à Yvetot, par le sieur François Gonin, sur les orders du conseil, en présence des sieurs Commissiaires nommés par ordonnance de M. l'Indendant de la Ville and Generalité de Rouen du 11 mai 1756, and sous l'inspection du sieur Godinet, inspecteur principal des manufactures de toiles and toileries de ladite généralité, and commis par le Conseil à cet effet.

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Note 22: Merlin, teinturier à Paris, "Petition d'établir une teinturerie," 9 May 1783, AN F/12/1330; "Mémoire lu par Hellot écrit par sieurs Gly et D'Heure concernant son bleu de Prusse," 6 and 9 February 1765, AdS pochette. back

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But none denied that she possessed a natural wit or the ability successfully to intrigue; and many were the grand _sieurs_ who had knelt at her feet.

The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

Jeanne, who had been in France, to La Grange of Ormes, near St. Prive, and was taken there to confer with any one of the sieurs of Metz, and she called herself Claude; and on the same day there came to see her there her two brothers, one of whom was a knight, and was called Messire

The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871