Berrichon

Tell your judges who promised me a smile, to smile on my Berrichon.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

But we love you, that is certain; and we would like to infuse in you a little of our Berrichon patience about the things in this world which are not amusing, we know that very well!

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

I go straight ahead, stupid as a cabbage and patient as a Berrichon.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

Old Berrichon airs were introduced with effect, as also such picturesque rustic festival customs as the ancient harvest-home ceremony, in which the last sheaf is brought on a wagon, gaily decked out with poppies, cornflowers and ribbons, and receives a libation of wine poured by the hand of the oldest or youngest person present.

Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas

Berrichon, for their head-master, she served thus singularly her brief apprenticeship to literature and experience; -- sharing with the rest both their studies and their relaxations, dining with them at cheap restaurants, frequenting clubs, studios, and theatres of every degree; the youthful effervescence of her student-friends venting itself in such collegians 'pranks as parading deserted quarters of the town by moonlight, in the small hours, chanting lugubrious strains to astonish the shopkeepers.

Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas

Perlute, in the Berrichon dictionary, signifies troubled, excited, upset, and applied perfectly to Claire's condition.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

And everybody at the table laughed heartily at the rustic jests of the old Berrichon peasant, whose colossal fortune filled the place of manliness, of education, of kindness of heart, but not of wit; for he had plenty of that, the rascal -- more than all his bourgeois fellow-guests together.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Berrichon blue-stocking; Madame d'Agoult and Liszt became Madame de

Balzac Frederick Lawton

Madame Sand had been advised to consult him professionally about her business affairs, and for this purpose went over one day with some of her Berrichon friends to see him at Bourges.

Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas

Her hero, a Berrichon artist on his travels, confesses to a feeling of uneasiness and regret rather than of surprise and admiration.

Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas