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Monsieur and Favre
`` I have told you before, and I tell you again '', Monsieur Favre said rudely.
Monsieur Favre sat down in his high-backed stall, lips compressed, eyes glinting.
`` Monsieur Favre just paid me a visit.

Monsieur and indicated
In the very first sentences of his preface, Alexandre Dumas indicated as his source Mémoires de Monsieur d ' Artagnan, printed by Pierre Rouge in Amsterdam.

Monsieur and if
After a short period of inaction, when it seemed as if the change might be for the worse, Britain and France in November 1879, re-established the Dual Control in the persons of Major Baring and Monsieur de Blignières.
I could put up with it if Monsieur only squandered his money in gaming, but sometimes he gives away as much as 100, 000 francs at one swoop, and all the economies fall upon me and the children.
Legend has it that it was not until the 12th century that Chambertin itself was planted by a Monsieur Bertin, who felt that he could also make good wines if he grew the same grape varieties as his famous next-door neighbour.
Thus, one would say Monsieur de la Vieuville, but if calling him familiarily by his last name only, La Vieuville ( note the initial capital letter ); the same applies for Gérard de la Martinière, who would be called La Martinière.

Monsieur and I
I want you to find Monsieur Prieur at once and give him this money for the boy's purchase.
After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.
Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).
In the account books of Johanna, Duchess of Brabant and Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxemburg, an entry dated May 14, 1379 reads: " Given to Monsieur and Madame four peters, two forms, value eight and a half moutons, wherewith to buy a pack of cards ".
* Monsieur Rimbaud in History of the World, Part I ( 1981 ).
The best-known figure on Cook's mission, Joseph Banks ,< ref > Extract from Lapérouse's journal: I here must witness my recognition of Sir Joseph Banks, who, having realised that Monsieur de Monneron could not find an inclining compass in London, wished to lend us those that had served the famous captain Cook.
De Staercke replied that Churchill was right: " The Prince, Monsieur Spaak and I read your text which is saying the precise truth, which seems perfect to us.
I have taken the liberty of sending your almanac to Monsieur de Condorcet, Secretary of the Academy of sciences at Paris, and member of the Philanthropic society because I considered it as a document to which your whole colour had a right for their justification against the doubts which have been entertained of them.
His father was Louis XIV's younger brother Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, known as Monsieur ; his mother was Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate.
Misconceptions about the countertenor voice were common at the time Deller was first gaining significant notice as a singer, which was only a matter of decades after the last castrati had died ; Michael Chance tells the story that once, a French woman, upon hearing Deller sing, exclaimed " Monsieur, vous êtes eunuque "— to which Deller replied, " I think you mean ' unique ,' madam.
Afterwards, Gassion noted: " Monsieur, I am most annoyed that you are wounded.
The first was the father of Maréchal de Camp Monsieur Raymond Dessalines, created 1st Baron de Louis Dessalines on 8 April 1811, aide-de-camp to King Henry I, Privy Councilor, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War between 1811 and 1820 and Member of the Royal Chamber of Public Instruction between 1818 and 1820, who received the degree of Knight of the Order of St. Henry on 1 May 1811 and was killed by the revolutionaries at Cap-Henri on 10 October 1820.
I of which contains a complete list of his works, and a " Notice Historique sur Monsieur B.
However, Raymond told me tactfully, ` Monsieur Colonel, vous aurez gros problemes ', meaning, I think, that we hadn't a hope in hell.
" Monsieur le Président ", Laval replied, " the insulting way in which you questioned me earlier and the demonstrations in which some members of the jury indulged show me that I may be the victim of a judicial crime.
He said of Berlioz, "... what Monsieur Berlioz composes is not part of that art which we distinguish as music, and I am completely certain that he lacks the most basic capability in this art.
In 2006 Cocker appeared on albums Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited ( song " I Just Came to Tell You That I'm Going ", co-performed with Kid Loco ) and Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys ( song " A Drop of Nelson's Blood ").
understand, Monsieur, with what great joy, and with what fatigue, I
* The More I Wonder ( 1957, probably a translation into English of Demain, Monsieur Silber )

Monsieur and would
Monsieur Favre's threat would become a reality, for he continued to proclaim loudly that the city must rid itself of `` that Frenchman ''.
" If Monsieur de Guise had perished sooner ", she told the Venetian ambassador, " peace would have been achieved more quickly ".
* A Brief Discourse of the Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist ; wherein the Witty Artifices of the Bishop of Meaux and of Monsieur Maimbourg are obviated, whereby they would draw in the Protestants to imbrace the doctrine of Transubstantiation, 1681.
It was not until 1660 at the death of Gaston that Philippe would be known simply as Monsieur or as the Duke of Orléans.
It appears that by the summer of 1724, the marquise de Prie, and possibly also Monsieur le Duc, were considering breaking Louis XV's engagement with the infanta, despite the great offence this would cause Spain, and finding him a wife who might provide the country with an heir at an earlier date.
A new candidate was sought urgently because, should Louis die with no heir, and assuming Philippe V of Spain did not seize the throne, then it would pass to the new duc d ' Orléans, son of the deceased regent ; the House of Orléans and the House of Condé were rivals, so this would cast Monsieur le Duc into the political wastelands.
Corbu claimed that Marie Dénarnaud would confide a secret to him before she died, saying " Pray do not worry yourself, Monsieur Corbu.
After 1709, the heads of the Orléans branch of the House of Bourbon ranked as the premier princes du sang-this meant that the dukes could be addressed as Monsieur le Prince ( a style they did not, however, use ) and that, should there be no heir to the crown of France in the king's immediate family, then the Orléans family would ascend the throne by right.
At first she meekly accepted Lane's strictures about what would be published by them but by the time of Poirot Investigates Christie insisted that their suggested title of The Grey Cells of Monsieur Poirot was not to her liking and that the book was to be included in the tally of six books within her contract-the Bodley Head opposed this because the stories had already been printed in The Sketch.

Monsieur and after
* May 5 – The Peace of Beaulieu or Peace of Monsieur ( after Monsieur, the Duc d ' Anjou, brother of the King, who negotiated it ) ends the Fifth War of Religion.
The best known export is Rizla + cigarette roll-up paper, a combination of riz ( rice paper ) and LaCroix, after Monsieur LaCroix the founder.
Reportedly, when budget estimates reached $ 14 million, the producers attempted to replace Hill with Arthur Hiller ; but abandoned the idea after hundreds of native Polynesians in the cast went on strike, declaring: " We can and will perform only for our friend, Monsieur Hill.
Greed of gold, social moralization, ultramontanism, lust of power, these are satirized Les Effrontés ( 1861 ), Le Fils de Giboyer ( 1862 ), La Contagion announced under the title of Le Baron d ' Estrigaud ( 1866 ), Lions et renards ( 1869 )-which, with Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier ( 354 ), written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, reach the high water mark of Augier's art ; in Philiberte ( 1853 ), he produced a graceful and delicate drawing-room comedy ; and in Jean de Thommeray, acted in 1873 after the great reverses of 1870, the regenerating note of patriotism rings high and clear.
He led a quiet life and was known at court as Monsieur le Duc after the loss of the rank of premier prince du sang in 1723.
In November 1785, upon his father's death, Philippe, the new Duke of Orléans, became the head of the House of Orléans, one of the wealthiest families of France, and Premier Prince du Sang, addressed as Monsieur, the most important personage of the kingdom after the king's immediate family, and, as such, next in line to the throne should the main Bourbon line die out.
This bird was named after the French naturalist Monsieur Richard of Lunéville.
Contes d ' une vieille fille a ses neveux ( 1832 ), La Canne de Monsieur de Balzac ( 1836 ) and Il ne faut pas jouer avec la douleur ( 1853 ) are among the best-known of her romances ; and her dramatic pieces in prose and verse include L ' École des journalistes ( 1840 ), Judith ( 1843 ), Cléopâtre ( 1847 ), Lady Tartufe ( 1853 ), and the one-act comedies, C ' est la faute du mari ( 1851 ), La Joie fait peur ( 1854 ), Le Chapeau d ' un horloger ( 1854 ) and Une Femme qui deteste son mari, which did not appear till after the author's death.
The team is forced to come out of retirement after Zahl assembles Brain, Monsieur Mallah, the Mutant Trio ( Ir, Ur, and Ar ), Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, and Arsenal ( who is his bodyguard ) to kill them.
In his work The Count of Monte Cristo, after Benedetto reveals in court that the crown prosecutor Monsieur de Villefort was his illegitimate father, he ( de Villefort ) forfeits his job and he removes his robes because it was a burden and torment to him, using the shirt of Nessus as a metaphor.
and restored as a single régiment de Monsieur after the second Bourbon restoration.
He continued to write novels, including the humorous potboiler The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly, but after Devil's Tor in 1932 he found it increasingly difficult to get his work issued, and spent much of his time on his last work The Witch which was not published in his lifetime.
Hawthorne begins the story with reference to the writings of the fictional writer " Monsieur Aubépine ", named after the French name of the Hawthorn plant.
At his decease the pupils of the Polytechnique School erected this mausoleum to his memory, as a testimony of their esteem, after a design made by his friend, Monsieur Denon.
* Philippe de France, Duke of Orléans ( 1640 – 1701 ) was the younger brother of Louis XIV, and known as Monsieur in 1660 after the death of his uncle, Gaston.
Younger daughters of Monsieur were named after one of his appanages, e. g. Mademoiselle de Chartres ( 1676 – 1744 ), the third surviving daughter of Philippe I, duc d ' Orléans.
Another scene edited out, shows " Minette "' s husband, the Duc d ' Orleans, called " Monsieur " ( the traditional appellation for the King's eldest brother ), a notorious homosexual libertine, battering and raping her after insulting her.
In the mess, he acquired the nickname of Monsieur Beaucaire after a play about an urbane Frenchman.
Soon after making this point clear to Captain Gaucher, Monsieur Pierpoint learns that his daughter Camille Pierpont has sneaked aboard the ship, and shows all the signs of a woman that will not be left behind.

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