Chièvres did for Carrel when he was accused in 1823 of plotting against the State.
Versailles is the capital; Sèvres and St. Cloud are other interesting places.
Duke of Orleans, was for long the favourite residence of the Emperor Napoleon, since destroyed; a part of the park is occupied by the Sèvres porcelain factory.
They were the Sèvres vases that I loved dearest of my possessions, and which, in the words of those who keep shops, 'cannot be repeated.
I ought to have paused and put my love of Sèvres vases in the balance with the diet of scrambled eggs and the prospect of unlimited washing-up, and I know which side would have tipped up at once.
A national touch was added by means of their Sèvres porcelain medallions set into furniture, and the finely chiselled bronzes known as ormoulu, a superior alloy of metals of a rich gold colour.
Madame du Barry admired and made her own the since famous du Barry rose colour, and the Sèvres porcelain factories reproduced it for her.
Then we may as well have the Blomfields, and air that awful modern Sèvres dessert-service she gave us when we were married.
Whoever may be occupied by the "delightful task" of fitting up a sumptuous drawing-room, will do well to take a tour round a room filled with sets of Sèvres porcelain.
It is impossible to admire or to praise them too much; or to deny that, wonderfully as similar manufactories have improved in England within the last thirty years, we have still nothing equal to the finer specimens of the Sèvres porcelain.
The Sèvres manufactory must, I think, have some individuals attached to it who have made the theory of colour an especial study.
The people on the Sèvres road had kept their shops open amid all the terrible firing.
Having watched the other side of the Sèvres Bridge, I was surprised on passing along the Sèvres road to observe that, very little damage had been done to the houses at the end of it near the enceinte.
All night long, as at Gièvres and at the base ports, the switch engines coughed forth their growls as they shunted cars, and the laborers worked at loading and unloading.
Regulating stations did the detail, while Gièvres and the base ports did the wholesale.
Here at Gièvres other trains were made up to continue the journey forward in answer to the daily requisitions of the regulating stations upon the intermediate reserves.
Sèvres that had been used everywhere, in imperial dwellings, national palaces, and was at last sent to the various ministries as the remnant of the tables of banished sovereigns.
It held nothing but a Sèvres inkstand and pair of candle-sticks that had once belonged to Madame Elisabeth.
The Sèvres vases mentioned by Brongniart were found about thirty feet below the volcanic deposits.
The presence of Eros in most cases suggests scenes of courting and the offerings of lovers; but as a rule they are purely fanciful, like the designs on Dresden and Sèvres china.
Chièvres and the Grand Chancellor rose, advanced together, and mounting the steps of the throne knelt before the King, to whom they spoke in whispers as though receiving some secret instructions.
I spoke to him a little while ago; he'd like to stay and see all the fun that is coming now with these man[oe]vres here, and what not.
But four years after the company was started the king bought up all the shares, thus becoming not only the patron but the proprietor of the Sèvres manufactory.
Such are, among others, the manufactories of Sèvres and of the Gobelins.
Like the Gobelins, the manufactory of Sèvres was not interfered with by the Revolution.
Duc's main proposal was that a school should be established in connection with the Sèvres manufactory, precisely what had been proposed and adopted under Louis Philippe's reign in connection with the Gobelins.
Jules Simon, at that time Minister of Public Instruction, to place the Sèvres manufactory on a more satisfactory footing.
The school of Sèvres was established in conformity with M.
The Sèvres porcelain of the period of the First Empire was remarkable for the stiffness and sham-academical style of the figures.
Although not connected in any direct manner with the Gobelins, the manufactory of Sèvres is associated with it as an establishment for art work.
To attempt to make porcelain elsewhere than at Sèvres was not only a criminal offence, but almost an offence of State.
The Sèvres is of no earthly use to him, and he would scarcely dare to touch it, and he would certainly never eat his cutlet or have his venison served on it; but it is something that everybody envies him, that nobody else has.
I am very much to him what the bleu ciel Sèvres for which he gave ten thousand pounds must be to Lord Dudley.
Even as things are now, who can foresee what will be all the consequences in the East of the clauses enforced on Turkey by the Sèvres Treaty?
Turkey from 1699 down to the Sèvres Treaty; it shows that, by completing the dismemberment of Turkey, the treaty aimed at her annihilation.
The Duc praised a magnificent Sèvres panel, just painted by Riocreux and Goupil, and given to her by Princess Olga on the New Year.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
