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  • You must tell him plainly that you have been marquise long enough, and that the moment has come at last for you to have the 'imperiale',

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • [The distinctive mark of duchesses was the 'imperiale'; that is, a rich and costly hammer-cloth of embroidered velvet, edged with gold, which covered the roofs of ducal equipages.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • [The distinctive mark of duchesses was the 'imperiale'; that is, a rich and costly hammer-cloth of embroidered velvet, edged with gold, which covered the roofs of ducal equipages.

    Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 4 Fran��oise-Ath��na��s de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan 1674

  • You must tell him plainly that you have been marquise long enough, and that the moment has come at last for you to have the 'imperiale', and sign your name in proper style. "

    Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Complete Fran��oise-Ath��na��s de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan 1674

  • [The distinctive mark of duchesses was the 'imperiale'; that is, a rich and costly hammer-cloth of embroidered velvet, edged with gold, which covered the roofs of ducal equipages.

    Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Complete Fran��oise-Ath��na��s de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan 1674

  • You must tell him plainly that you have been marquise long enough, and that the moment has come at last for you to have the 'imperiale', and sign your name in proper style. "

    Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 4 Fran��oise-Ath��na��s de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan 1674

  • The coach, to which were harnessed four iron-gray horses that would have done honor to the Messageries-royales, was divided into three compartments, coupe, interieur, and rotonde, with an imperiale above.

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  • Still dressed in a blue blouse, beneath which he wore a black suit, he smoked his pipe, and superintended the two porters in livery, who were stowing away the luggage in the great imperiale.

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  • CONDRAYE, their _savon imperiale; _ MONPELAS hys _eau de toilette_, wyth othir lyttle thinges too numerouse to mentyon.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • JULLIEN, La poesie francaise a l'epoque imperiale (Paris, 1844);

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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