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Artois   /ɑrtwˈɑ/   Listen
Artois

noun
1.
A former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders).





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"Artois" Quotes from Famous Books



... name then. Vat's in a name? Dat vich ye call a Rosicrucian by any other name vil smell as sveet. 'Monsieur,' he said, 'I am old—I am rich. I have five hundred thousand livres of rentes in Picardy. I have half as much in Artois. I have two hundred and eighty thousand on the Grand Livre. I am promised by my Sovereign a dukedom and his orders with a reversion to my heir. I am a Grandee of Spain of the First Class, and Duke of Volovento. Take my titles, ...
— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.
... to Troyes. This took place on the 15th of August. The same day the two brothers of the King went to register the edicts in the Cour des Comptes and the Cour des Aides. Monsieur was received with acclamations; but D'Artois, who belonged to the unpopular Calonne party, was hissed and jostled by the crowd. Alarmed, he ordered his guard to close about him. "I was standing in one of the apartments through which he had to pass," says Paine, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various


Words linked to "Artois" :   France, French region, French Republic


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