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A eulogistic quatrain is signed Nature quite, which, it is generally agreed, is an anagram of Jean Turquet.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Edmond Turquet, the present sous-secrétaire aux Beaux-Arts, and the very unfair acts committed in the awarding of medals, admission of pictures, etc.M. Jean Jacques Henner's _La Fontaine_ is a true Correggio in delicacy and clearness of tone.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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Sir Theodore is Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, M.D., 1573-1655, an interesting account of whom appears in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888
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Like Marguerite Turquet she had "well soaked the little d'Esgrignon."
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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While in London, Rubens also painted the portraits of many society luminaries - such as the haughty Earl of Arundel and the wise-bearded, royal physician Théodore Turquet de Mayerne.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Alastair Smart 2012
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While all Western nations have now removed exemptions for husbands from rape legislation, preconceptions about sexuality in marriage live on, said Laura Turquet, chief author of the U.N.
NYT > Global Home By KATRIN BENNHOLD 2011
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While all Western nations have now removed exemptions for husbands from rape legislation, preconceptions about sexuality in marriage live on, said Laura Turquet, chief author of the U.N.
NYT > Home Page By KATRIN BENNHOLD 2011
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Marguerite Turquet, the Aspasia of the Cirque-Olympique, is one of those frank, very living personalities to whom all is forgiven, such unconscious sinners are they, such intelligent penitents; of such as Malaga one might ask, like Cardot -- a witty man enough, albeit a notary -- to be well "deceived."
A Man of Business Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Mlle. Turquet, or Malaga, for she is better known by her pseudonym
A Man of Business Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Turquet, and lived on the fifth story of a house in the rue des
Paz Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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