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Mme. Dieulafoy, had not (chosen by some collector desirous of giving a crowning touch of orientalism to this figure from Susa) his first name, Nissim, stretched out above it the pinions of an androcephalous bull from Khorsabad.
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I knew that, in the Guermantes set, the name of Dieulafoy was regularly quoted
The Guermantes Way 2003
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But I was not aware that my father had, as a matter of fact, just sent for Dieulafoy.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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Here Mme. Dieulafoy in 1881 made extensive excavations of the palace of the Persian kings, many relics of which are now on view at the Louvre in Paris.
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela
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She and Mme. Dieulafoy, the wife of the explorer, are the only two women in France who are legally authorized to appear in public in men's clothes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 Various
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Choisy, following Dieulafoy, would derive the Byzantine system of construction from Persia, but this proposition seems to depend on a mistaken chronology of the monuments as shown by Perrot and Chipiez in their _History of Art in Persia_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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The ruins of the acropolis, covering about 300 acres, have been explored by Williams and Loftus, and more thoroughly by Dieulafoy and de Morgan.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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On Persian Art: Dieulafoy, L'Art antique de la Perse (Paris, 1884);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Lenormant, Ely; Dieulafoy, _L'Art Antique de la Perse_;
A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894
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Out of these elements they evolved an architecture which has only become fully known to us since the excavations of M. and Mme. Dieulafoy at Susa in 1882.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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