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  • Ambrosia and Nectar: Lunch at the Pesant skip to main

    Lunch at the Pesant Annemarie 2007

  • Pierre le Pesant called on France to switch from the mercantilism established by Colbert to a system of free enterprise as a means of righting the problems of famine and poverty plaguing France.

    1694 2001

  • During the first two decades they were ministered to by the Marist Fathers Comte, Pesant, Tripe, SÈon,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Cleophas Pesant, son of Thadée Pesant the blacksmith, was already in light-coloured summer garments, and sported an American coat with broad padded shoulders; though on this cold Sunday he had not ventured to discard his winter cap of black cloth with harelined ear-laps for the hard felt hat he would have preferred to wear.

    Maria Chapdelaine; a Tale of the Lake St. John country 1913

  • Cleophas Pesant, son of Thadee Pesant the blacksmith, was already in light-coloured summer garments, and sported an American coat with broad padded shoulders; though on this cold Sunday he had not ventured to discard his winter cap of black cloth with harelined ear-laps for the hard felt hat he would have preferred to wear.

    Maria Chapdelaine Louis H��mon 1896

  • Montreal photojournalist François Pesant chronicles the plight of Indian climate

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

  • Pesant says the glaciers will be the focus of his next project.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

  • Medical attention is practically non-existent, as the medical establishment, including doctors, are "revolted" by the refugees, Pesant says.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

  • The best known of the late seventeenth-century French advocates of laissez-faire is Pierre le Pesant, Sieur de Boisguilbert (1646-1714).

    Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version) 2010

  • The best known of the late seventeenth-century French advocates of laissez-faire is Pierre le Pesant, Sieur de Boisguilbert (1646-1714).

    Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version) 2010

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