"Bourgogne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of vegetables are sensibly diminished. By half-past ten the white-capped maid-servants have carried the heavy baskets home, and are busy preparing lunch. At eleven o'clock the sharp boy whose stock-in-trade consisted of three trays of snails stuffed a la Bourgogne has sold all the large ones at 45 centimes a dozen, all the small at 25, and quite two-thirds of ...
— A Versailles Christmas-Tide • Mary Stuart Boyd
... chairs, at a table, and ate from plates. There was a table-cloth, a salt-cellar made of glass, of glass never seen at camps near Katahdin. There was a sugar-bowl, a milk-jug, and other paraphernalia of civilization, including—O memories of Joseph Bourgogne!—a dome of baked beans, with a crag of pork projecting from the apex. We partook decorously, with controlled elbows, endeavoring to appear as if we were accustomed to sit at tables and manage plates. The men, women, and children of Millinoket were hospitable and delighted to see strangers, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 62, December, 1862 • Various
... tour de tous ses capitaines; Il appela les plus hardis, les plus fougueux, Eudes, roi de Bourgogne, Albert de Perigueux, Samo, que la legende aujourd'hui divinise, Garin, qui, se trouvant un beau jour a Venise, Emporta sur son dos le lion de Saint-Marc, Ernaut de Bauleande, Ogier de Danemark, Roger, enfin, grande ame au peril toujours ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... decomposing and recomposing words and fitting them to new meanings. "Un Corse la finira," found within the words, "Revolution Francaise"; "Eh, c'est large nez," in "Charles Genest," an abbe at the court of Louis XIV., whose huge nose is recorded by Saint-Simon as the delight of the Duc de Bourgogne (the exigencies of this last anagram required the substitution of a z for an s),—were a never-ending marvel to Colleville. Raising the anagram to the height of a science, he declared that the destiny of every man was written in the words ...
— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac
... in Paris at the time when Moliere returned to the capital was anything but satisfactory. There were in 1658 five theatres in Paris: One at the Hotel de Bourgogne; one at the Marais; one under the patronage of Mademoiselle, daughter of Gaston, Duke of Orleans; a Spanish company; and an Italian company at the Petit Bourbon, under the managership of Torelli. It was with the first and last of these ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various |
