Marolles

[Andre Roquet], L'Art nouveau de la peinture en fromage ou en ramequin (Marolles, 1755).

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Note 22: [Jean-André Roquet], L'Art nouveau de la peinture en fromage, ou en ramequin, inventée pour suivre le louable projet de trouver graduellement des façons de peindre inférieures à celles qui existent (Marolles, 1755). back

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Marolles, the shabby old southwest corner of the city, was now scheduled for the bulldozers, and that district — gemütlich and low-priced — was where the counter-culture had gravitated.

The Luxembourg Run Ellin, Stanley 1977

So the counter-culture was rallying its forces, and Trude and her Alain who had a pad on the rue de Renard in the heart of Marolles were leading members of the general staff.

The Luxembourg Run Ellin, Stanley 1977

On the other side of the bridge, the canal wanders peacefully along through endless green meadows, bordered with poplars, to Marolles, a little village where there is the first écluse on the way to Paris.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

We raced along the bank as fast as we could, but the canal turns a great deal, and a bend prevented our seeing the stag, with the hounds at his heels, galloping down the slope and finally jumping into the canal, just where it widens out and makes a sort of lake between our hamlet of Bourneville and Marolles.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

The wheelwright at Marolles had never seen anything of the kind, had no idea _what_ we wanted.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

Marolles and all our household arriving in hot haste, and groups of led horses and valets de chiens in their green coats half-way up the slope.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

W. sent him straight off again to the mayor of Marolles -- our big village -- to know if his information was correct, and how many people we must provide for.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

He too had woollen socks over his shoes, and said the going was something awful, the "Montagne de Marolles" a sheet of ice; he had fallen twice, in spite of his socks and pointed stick.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington