"Parisienne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... clair, Creme de volaille, Brisotins de foie gras, Saumon Napolitain, Filet de boeuf a la moderne, Supreme de perdreaux, Homards a la Parisienne, Gelinottes roties, Salade, Petits pois a l'Anglaise, Ananas Montmorency, Glaces assorties, Cafe—Liqueur (both served ...
— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
... Parisienne became an outcast because her husband would not forgive an error of her youth. Her love for her son is the great final influence in her career. ...
— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon
... developments. Upon almost any question of current English opinion and upon most current English social questions, the best studies are in French. But there has been little or no reciprocal activity. The English in France seem to confine their French studies to La Vie Parisienne. It is what they have been led to expect of ...
— War and the Future • H. G. Wells
... you please him, that you are beautiful, that you have a voice and hand, a turn of the arm—that you have the manner Parisienne—Jeanne, is it ...
— The Purchase Price • Emerson Hough
... distinguished Parisienne, Mme. de Valsayre, has been petitioning the French legislature in favor of the emancipation of women from petticoats. Her case is that petticoats are very dangerous, leading to innumerable fatal accidents, and that trousers are just as decent, ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 - Volume 1, Number 9 • Various
... Each of these rulers began to reign under favorable auspices, yet each succumbed to the siren's spell, and there was no reason at all, according to such reckoning, why the handsome and impulsive Alexis should escape. That a pretty Parisienne who was also an artist should fail to offer herself as a willing bait did not enter at all into ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... furnishing of Mr. Prohack's own house. On the table were newspapers and periodicals. Not The Engineering Times of April in the previous year or a Punch of the previous decade, and The Vaccination Record; but such things as the current Tatler, Times, Economist, and La Vie Parisienne. ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett
... intelligent and estimable lady, applied to Hahnemann for advice for lung and heart disease. It has been humorously stated that though the lung disease was effectually cured, the trouble of the heart must have assumed a chronic form, for the fascinating Parisienne seemed deeply enamored with the great doctor. She was 35 years of age, the daughter of Louis Jerome Cohier, formerly Minister of Justice and President and Director of the French Republic, her name was Marie Melanie d'Herville Cohier. This ...
— Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgement of Common Sense! • Frederick Hiller
... varieties just mentioned we have also the French varieties, such as the Mayette, Franquette, Cutleaf, Alpine and Parisienne. The French varieties are not tried out in respect to their dependability for the Atlantic coast. They however show hardiness equal to any other ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting - Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 • Various
... from Fecamp," said the Mother Senneville, "with a Parisienne, who has a parasol, ...
— Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories • Henry Seton Merriman
... and separated; the friend to use his influence and powers of persuasion with Valdoreme; the husband to tell Tenise how blessed they were in having such a friend to intercede for them; for Tenise, bright little Parisienne that she was, bore no malice against the unreasonable wife of ...
— Revenge! • by Robert Barr
... charcoal and emerge each time whiter than ever. This is the highest refinement of intellectual and Parisian civilization. Women beyond the Rhine or the English Channel believe nonsense of this sort when they utter it; while your Parisienne makes her lover believe that she is an angel, the better to add to his bliss by flattering his vanity on both sides—temporal and spiritual. Certain persons, detractors of the Duchess, maintain that she was the first dupe of her own white magic. ...
— The Collection of Antiquities • Honore de Balzac
... Cafe Tantale in ten minutes," answered De Chauxville, passing on to greet a lady who was bowing to him with the labored grace of a Parisienne. ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman
... Taken in its simplicity, this principle would indicate the three-act division as the ideal scheme for a play. As a matter of fact, many of the best modern plays in all languages fall into three acts; one has only to note Monsieur Alphonse, Francillon, La Parisienne, Amoureuse, A Doll's House, Ghosts, The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, Johannisfeuer, Caste, Candida, The Benefit of the Doubt, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Silver Box; and, furthermore, many old plays which are nominally in five acts ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer |
