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KOEPPEL: Well, the original banana that Americans came to know was called the Gros Michel banana, and that one was wiped out by a blight between 1906 and 1960.

NPR Topics: News 2011

KOEPPEL: Well, the original banana that Americans came to know was called the Gros Michel banana, and that one was wiped out by a blight between 1906 and 1960.

NPR Topics: News 2011

The banana our grandparents ate was a different - and most people say better tasting - breed called the Gros Michel.

A conversation with Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World 2010

She calls Gros-René in another place _beau valet de carreau_.]

The Love-Tiff 1622-1673 Moli��re 1647

Much of the old lace known as "Spanish Point" is not Spanish at all, but the best of Italian Rose Point on a large scale, being the variety known as Gros Point.

Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

I have heard that the last Valois then known occupied the estate called Gros Bois; that as he seldom came to Court, Louis XIII. asked him what he was about that he remained so constantly in the country; and that this M. de Valois merely answered, "Sire, I only do there what I ought."

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

BRUCE (Gabriel), alias Gros-Jean, one of the fiercest Chouans of the

Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

Gabriel Bruce, called Gros-Jean, one of the most ferocious

The Brotherhood of Consolation Honor�� de Balzac 1824

I have heard that the last Valois then known occupied the estate called Gros Bois; that as he seldom came to Court, Louis XIII. asked him what he was about that he remained so constantly in the country; and that this M. de Valois merely answered, "Sire, I only do there what I ought."

Marie Antoinette — Complete 1787

I have heard that the last Valois then known occupied the estate called Gros Bois; that as he seldom came to Court, Louis XIII. asked him what he was about that he remained so constantly in the country; and that this M. de Valois merely answered, "Sire, I only do there what I ought."

Marie Antoinette — Volume 04 1787