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  • Arriving late at night in Chaumont, the American Headquarters in France, I sought shelter for the night in the house of a group of friends.

    George C. Marshall - Nobel Lecture 1953

  • Acropolis above a smaller Athens; it rises upon the only height visible for some distance, and is in a commanding position for holding the level fields of Touraine around it, and securing the passage of the Loire between Tours and Chaumont, which is the next link in the chain that ends at Blois.

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 Various 1885

  • Chaumont, which is often during the autumn closed to visitors, was at that particular moment standing so wide open to receive us that it was our duty to hire one of her carriages and drive thither with speed.

    A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

  • Golgotha signifies a skull; it corresponds with the French word Chaumont, and probably designated a bare hill or rising ground, having the form of a bald skull.

    The Life of Jesus Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1863

  • Philippe Chaumont, director of Chai Vincent, a Toulouse wine shop, includes a Madiran in his list of recommended wines for an ideal cassoulet meal.

    The Comfort of a Hearty Cassoulet J. S. Marcus 2011

  • His big breakthrough came eight years later, with his installation at France's prestigious Chaumont-Sur-Loire garden festival—he had trekked to Chile to find plants there that might adapt to the Chaumont's climate.

    The Green Man Whose Gardens Defy Gravity Julia Flynn Siler 2011

  • Starting in the northeastern town of Chaumont in Haute-Marne where the mayor, Luc Chatel, also happens to be education minister, the aim of the nomadic gallery is to bring top-flight art to a wider audience—particularly the estimated one in two of the population of this art-rich nation who has never stepped inside a museum.

    Ladies and Gentlemen... Cirque Pompidou Lennox Morrison in Paris 2011

  • I am so touched by your description of my childhood playground (Les Buttes Chaumont and Paris, bien sur!).

    malentendus 2009

  • Like many people in and around Toulouse, Mr. Chaumont says he likes to make cassoulet from scratch a few times a year—"especially if we have a big reunion with lots of people."

    The Comfort of a Hearty Cassoulet J. S. Marcus 2011

  • Fondrèche wines may be an import from outside France's cassoulet heartland, but Mr. Chaumont says the estate is home to "one of France's most talented winemakers."

    The Comfort of a Hearty Cassoulet J. S. Marcus 2011

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