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  • Like the original "city" or bourg, the new town was itself a fortress: it was called "nouveau-bourg" or "fauborg"- that is to say, outer fortress; for which reason its inhabitants were known, from the beginning of the 11th century, by the name of bourgeois.

    Archive 2003-12-30 patternjuggler 2003

  • Like the original "city" or bourg, the new town was itself a fortress: it was called "nouveau-bourg" or "fauborg"- that is to say, outer fortress; for which reason its inhabitants were known, from the beginning of the 11th century, by the name of bourgeois.

    A History of Europe: Volume 1 by Henri Pirenne patternjuggler 2003

  • Speech by Lazowski to the section of Finistère, fauborg Saint-Marceau.

    The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • Baudoyer, and his daughter, Elisabeth, Baudoyer's wife, were playing a virtuous game of boston with their confessor, the Abbe Gaudron, in company with a few neighbors and a certain Martin Falleix, a brass-founder in the fauborg Saint-Antoine, to whom Saillard had loaned the necessary money to establish a business.

    Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Revisions to the electronic version corrector Judy Boss Conversion to TEI-conformant markup;; in Cosette: I have made the following changes to the text: PAGE LINE ORIGINAL CHANGED TO 61 19 Hougumont Hougomont 63 16 Franch French 95 24 there "there 105 6 fauborg faubourg 121 6 millionnaires millionaires 123 18 millionnaire millionaire 126 11 millionnaire millionaire 263 38 Cosette.

    Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

  • "In our fauborg of Notre-dame la Riche, in which this inn is situated, there lived a beautiful girl, who besides her natural advantages, had

    Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • "In our fauborg of Notre-dame la Riche, in which this inn is situated, there lived a beautiful girl, who besides her natural advantages, had

    Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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