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He was described by Thureau-Dangin as "le plus solennel des indécis, le plus méditatif des irréfléchis, le plus heureux des ambitieux, le plus austère des courtisans de la foule."
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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BANQUET, _m. _, grand repas; festin solennel et somptueux.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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Commission royale d'histoire (1887), 185; DE PAUW, Dernières découvertes concernant le docteur solennel (ibid., 1888 and 1889),
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Charles surrendered the royal palace in the Cité, associated with bitter memories of Marcel's dictatorship, to the Parlement, and partly bought, partly erected an irregular group of exquisite Gothic mansions and chapels which he furnished with sumptuous magnificence and surrounded with tennis courts, falconries, menageries, delightful and spacious gardens -- a _hostel solennel des grands esbattements_,
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893
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Monsieur, de me compter parmi les hommes qui se feliciteront de pouvoir lui rendre un solennel hommage, et je vous remercie d'avoir pense a moi dans ce dessein.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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Le rétablir dans son réception primitive et la justifier par un engagement plus solennel, tel est le but de mes efforts, tel il sera,
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
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Thus, Le Mercier says, "Le Diable se sentoit presse de pres, il ne pouuoit supporter le Baptesme solennel de quelques Sauuages des plus signalez."
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Francis Parkman 1858
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Elle eut, en ce moment solennel, une part d'action tout à fait hors ligne.
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852
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It is this same taste, which, in that solemn commemoration of the death of their king, the _service solennel_ for Louis XVI. contrived to introduce a species of affected parade, -- a detailed and theatrical sort of grief, -- a kind of meretricious mummery of sorrow, which banished all the feelings, and almost completely destroyed the impression which such a scene in any other country would inevitably have produced.
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Archibald Alison 1829
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Les services distingués que vous avez déjà rendu à mon royaume, et ceux que vous lui rendez maintenant, le zèle que vous avez constamment déployé pour le succès de nos entreprises, tous ces motifs réunis vous avaient acquis depuis longtems des droits à mon estime et à ma reconnaissance; et j'éprouve une satisfaction toute particulière de pouvoir vous en donner aujourdhui un gage solennel.
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II John Ross 1816
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