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Les Austronésiens de Taïwan: à travers les sources chinoises.
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Il ne faut pas toujour traiter les affaires chinoises dans une maniere francaise.
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Sinon les deux Tomes completent donc ma precieuses collections de legendes chinoises comme "la Peregrination vers l'Ouest".
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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The Marquis d'Argens dedicated his Lettres chinoises (The Hague, 1755) to the shade of
Dictionary of the History of Ideas DONALD F. LACH 1968
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Seraphim, famed for its "ombres chinoises," and liberally patronized by the frequenters of the Palais Royal.
Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe
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Godard, Les croyances chinoises et japanaises (Paris, 1901); De
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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They will have a recitation perhaps, -- _ombres chinoises, _ -- music.
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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It was all mere surface sound, this murmur of their welcome, this popping of their corks -- just as his gestures of response were the extravagant shadows, emphatic in proportion as they meant little, of some game of _ombres chinoises_.
The Jolly Corner Henry James 1879
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Martinique who can afford it wears moresques and chinoises.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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He has a provoking habit of nestling in your _moresques_ or your _chinoises_, -- those wide light garments you put on before taking your siesta or retiring for the night.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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