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“Turn the corner into Rue du Mont-Cenis and park the car at the curb.”
Maigret and the Informer Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1971
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The lookout was a poor, unhealthy-looking man who said that he was a messenger and that he lived on the Rue du Mont-Cenis, in Montmartre.
Maigret and the Killer Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1969
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He was what is popularly known as a “plain-clothes detective,” one of twenty plain-clothes inspectors with headquarters in the Town Hall of Montmartre, on the corner of Rue Caulaincourt and Rue du Mont-Cenis.
Maigret and the Apparition Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1964
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Then he turned into the Rue du Mont-Cenis and went down the steps to the Place Constantin-Pecqueur, where he stopped outside another café.
Maigret in Montmartre Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958
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Still, the snow fell heavily as we walked over the summit of the pass of the Mont-Cenis, preceding the diligence in which we had travelled all night.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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To vary the route homeward, instead of crossing the Mont-Cenis, as had been done in frost and snow at a late season of the year in the former tour, I enjoyed the enviable contrast of journeying along the _Riviera di Ponente_ from Genoa to
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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The Emperor arrived at Milan at noon on the 22d; and, notwithstanding our delay at Mont-Cenis, the rest of the journey had been so rapid that no one was expecting the Emperor.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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We traveled with great speed as far as Mont-Cenis, but were compelled to go more slowly after reaching this pass, as the weather had been very bad for several days, and the road was washed out by the rain, which still fell in torrents.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Having landed in Sardinia, we should continue the tour through that island as long as circumstances permitted; leaving it by one of the Sardinian government's steam-boats which ply between the island and Genoa and so take the route by Turin, over the Mont-Cenis, to Lyons, Paris, and
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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Roads and canals received his attention; the roads over the Simplon and Mont-Cenis Passes are largely his work.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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