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Example sentences for "cour des"

  • But the cour des pairs in this sense was not separate from the curia regis, and later from the parlement of Paris, of which the peers of France were by right members.

  • In 1807 was created another great administrative jurisdiction, the cour des comptes, after the pattern of that which had existed under the ancien regime.

  • The cour des aides of Paris, which had made common cause with the parlement, was also suppressed.

  • A letter was surreptitiously thrown over the wall into the cour des femmes.

  • This face, framed in the night of its hair, seemed (as it moved at the window overlooking the cour des femmes) inexorably and colossally young.

  • They were separated by a stone wall ten feet in height, which I had already remarked (while en route to les douches) as forming one end of the cour des femmes.

  • He picked up the cannon-ball one day and threw it so hard that the wall separating the men's cour from the cour des femmes shook, and a piece of stone fell off.

  • France and confirmed him in his office as president of the cour des comptes.

  • The clerks of the procureurs at the cour des comptes of Paris had their own Basoche of great antiquity, called the "empire de Galilée.

  • In 1705, the Cour des Aides was united to the Cour des Comptes, under the name Cour de Comptes, Aides et Finances de Rouen.

  • We see before us the "Cour des Massacres.

  • Eugène Müntz (Les Arts à la Cour des Papes) from my own point of view.

  • Interior of the Cour des Libraires, Rouen, shewing the gate of entrance from the street, and the Library.

  • Cour des Libraires, with the beautiful gate of entrance from the street.

  • The protest of the cour des aides in 1775 is one of the most important documents of the old regime in France.

  • The protest of the cour des aides has been published with translation by G.

  • The young lawyer soon proved his intellectual capacity, when he was appointed president of the cour des aides in the parlement of Paris in 1750 on the promotion of his father, Guillaume de Lamoignon, to be chancellor.

  • In the centre of the alcove stood the youthful-looking and extraordinary person who, in so unceremonious a manner, had visited la Cour des Fées the preceding night.

  • And is la belle Barbérie no longer a tenant of la Cour des Fées!

  • On entering la Cour des Fées, it was, in truth, found to want her whose beauty and grace had lent its chief attraction.

  • In compliment to the beauty and origin of its inhabitant, the gallant François had christened this particular portion of the villa, la Cour des Fées a name that had gotten into general use, though somewhat corrupted in sound.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain days; close approach; cour des; courage and; course not; course she; course the; course there; course they; course you; court bouillon; court life; court martial; court room; courteous knight; deep pool; flushed face; franc pieces; great depth; nothing wrong; observations made; right angle; slight start; think upon; watching over; white cross