His affectation ofvieille cour showed itself in the use of powder, which distinguished him in the days when the custom was dying out among civilians.
Before it was christened Place aux Chats, it was called Place aux Pourceaux; and in 1575 Rue de la Limace bore the name of Vieille Place aux Pourceaux.
The Ville Neuve, which lies nearer the river, developed during the 17th century and later than the Ville Close, while the Vieille Ville is older than either.
Blavet, which divides it into two parts--the Ville Close, the medieval military town, and the Ville Neuve on the left bank and the Vieille Ville on the right bank.
Talking of theatres, some of la Vieille Cour, who happened to be present, remarked on the distinction always made between the female performers of the different ones.
Lawe, the, line of, at Vieille Chapelle and Estaires, German cavalry driven back to, 204.
De Mitry's Cavalry Corps assembled and drove the German cavalry back to the line of the Lawe at Vieille Chapelle and Estaires.
Conneau's Cavalry Corps pushed back the German cavalry to the line Vermelles--Richebourg--Vieille Chapelle.
We cut a brave enough figure as we rode down the Rue Vieille attended by our servants, and many a rustic Blaisois stopped to gape at us, to nudge his companion, and point us out, whispering the word "Paris.
In the Vieille Rue du Temple the coach stopped; Nathalie got out, pale, trembling, and scarcely able to support herself.
From it are walled off, at the east end, the Port Marchand and the Vieille Darse, or town-docks, whence the steamers sail.
And whom should they meet coming down the narrow turreted old Rue Vieille des Mauvais Ladres but Little Billee himself, with an air of general demoralization so tragic that they were quite alarmed.
Feeling a little dazed, and wishing to think, she turned up the Rue Vieille des Mauvais Ladres, which was always deserted at this hour.
Well, then, we must fight it out; but as we are of the Vieille Guarde we will give you choice of weapons.
He seemed to aim rather at the rough independence of Revolutionary France than at the politesse which marked the vieille Cour of which Madame was an exponent.
Vieille barbe, old-fashioned politician who will not keep up with the times.
Balzac, in a letter to Madame Hanska, refers to her as une vieille celebrite, and states that she wept over the letter of Madame de Mortsauf to Felix in Le Lys dans la Vallee.
The friendship continued to grow, however, and in December, 1836, the novelist offered her the manuscript of La vieille Fille.
Berthelot and Vieille have shown that if gaseous acetylene is stored at a pressure of 11.
Berthelot and Vieille observed when a steel bomb having a capacity of 49 c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vieille" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
