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They do not wish to be stuck on their chair ... "faire tapisserie" as the expression goes ...
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They do not wish to be stuck on their chair... "faire tapisserie" as the expression goes ...
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Madam's ill-spoken French, she added in English, of even worse quality, that the Gobelins 'manufacture of tapisserie and carpet, was the place the moz curiouze and interressante which one could go see in Paris.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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Ordre des Obseques, ... de feu de tresheureuse memoire le Roy Henry deuxieme_, etc., which says: "La dicte salle, ensemble lesdicts théatres, estoient tendus tout autour d'une tapisserie d'or et de soie à grandes figures, _des actes des apostres_."
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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Bergier, _Poème sur la tapisserie de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 112.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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_Théâtre de Bourgogne_ deeply busied the boy's imagination, to the great detriment of the _tapisserie_ of all the Pocquelins.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807
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(London, 1888); GUIFFREY, Histoire de la tapisserie, depuis le moyen âge jusqu'à nos jours (Tours, 1886); THOMSON, A History of Tapestry from the Earliest Times until the Present Day (London.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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C’était un cabinet de travail très vaste, à tapisserie verte.
Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant Alphonse Daudet 1868
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