Gournay

Gazing at their done-over barns and railroad apartments in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one gets the definite sense that their "undecorated" spaces are a bit more decorated than our own undecorated spaces, and one secretly suspects that one's own life may not yield up the time to stumble across handpainted Chinoiserie wallpaper by the storied French firm de Gournay or antique Etruscan pottery brought back from a trip to Beirut.

The Rise of the Personal Katie Roiphe 2011

Mademoiselle de Gournay and Montaigne be revived in us?

Modeste Mignon 2007

The Baron had tried to think; but after passing the bridge at Gournay, the soft somnolence of digestion had sealed his eyes.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

Next morning he was dead — not bruised, or stabbed, or marked upon the body, but much distorted in the face; and it was whispered afterwards, that those two villains, Gournay and Ogle, had burnt up his inside with a red-hot iron.

A Child's History of England 2007

Archaeologists have now revealed that the Gauls did, in fact, build permanent ritual sites at places like Gournay-sur-Aronde and Ribemont-sur-Ancre in northern France.

Gallic Blood Rites 2001

The rituals performed at Gournay-sur-Aronde and Ribemont-sur-Ancre, however, went well beyond animal sacrifice, a commonplace rite among the Greeks and Romans, and included the triumphant display of the remains of enemies killed in battle or sacrificed to the gods of the underworld, from whom the Gauls believed they were descended.

Gallic Blood Rites 2001

In The Paradise of Women, Betty Travitsky suggests that there was as yet no Marie du Gournay in England to call for the equal education of men and women and for the right of women to engage in any work, as the French writer did in her Egalite des hommes et des femmes (1622).

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

Gournay was the author of the above axiom of political economy.

Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 Various

I might have suspected that something was wrong by the strange look on the face of a friendly French peasant whom I met at Gournay.

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

Gournay, the young woman who at the age of twenty-two became his enthusiastic admirer, and whom he called his daughter, issued a new edition, in which she inserted the revisions and additions when he had indicated in a copy in 1588.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913