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No doubt there will be other incidental discoveries on my next working trip to London, but I shall long remember this as the summer of Sèvres, of Chu Teh-chun — and, incidentally, of the 11ème Cie. des sapeurs-pompiers.
Sèvres 2009
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Parisian sapeurs-pompiers, by contrast, as if by some outrageous process of admittedly no less fetishistic typecasting, are mostly lithe, elegant, sinuous, and beautiful.
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The Tumbrel Diaries: Grand bal des sapeurs-pompiers skip to main | skip to sidebar
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I get to spend the two days in the company of two rather fine sapeurs-pompiers.
British Blogs 2009
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I get to spend the two days in the company of two rather fine sapeurs-pompiers.
janestheone 2009
erinmckean commented on the word sapeurs-pompiers
"The fire service in France is known as Sapeurs-pompiers, except in Marseille, where naval "sailor-firefighters", marins-pompiers, provide fire and rescue services." Wikipedia
March 3, 2015