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  • Upon entering the town, I inquired the way to the Hotel d'Angleterre, which is kept by an Englishman of the name of Parker,

    Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

  • Gaillard's "Rivalit ` e de la France et de l'Angleterre" -- 52 31.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

  • 'Angleterre' section of its 'Correspondence Politique' and the 'Amerique' section of its 'Memoires et Documents,' extensive material on the disputes with the English

    The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline 1898

  • She had a respect for "Angleterre"; and as to "les Anglaises," she would have the women of no other country about her own children, if she could help it.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • In 1160, or as some say 1155, Wace finished his 'Brut d'Angleterre' which is in reality a translation into French of Geoffrey of Monmouth, who wrote a History of Britain from the imaginary Brutus of Troy down to Cadwallader in

    Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845

  • In 1160, or as some say 1155, Wace finished his 'Brut d'Angleterre' which is in reality a translation into French of Geoffrey of Monmouth, who wrote a History of Britain from the imaginary Brutus of Troy down to Cadwallader in

    Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845

  • He was at the "Angleterre;" he had left East Chester about a week ago; he had letters for all of them, but had not dared to bring them through the crowd for fear of having his pocket picked.

    A Dark Night's Work Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Gray, and the 'Histoire d'Angleterre' by Rapin, Thoyras and de Barrow, do not mention it.

    Celebrated Crimes (Complete) Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • _attaché, _, seeing fit to stroll round the Caserne Pepinière, beheld in the yard an extraordinary crowd of limbers: and, pitching into a cab, from the nearest _postes et télégraphes_ wired to London the word: "Angleterre".

    The Lord of the Sea 1906

  • There was a great deal of filth in Marseilles streets and along her wharves and in the corners of her many public squares; and even our hotel, the "Angleterre," was anything but clean; it was a tall, old rookery, from the windows of our rooms in which I looked down into an open space between the strange, old buildings, and saw a juggler do his marvels on a bit of carpet spread on the pavement, while a woman handed him the implements of magic out of a very much travelled and soiled deal-box.

    Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890

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