"Pucelle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... might be read, attached to the pedestal. The ladies of his own verse, Marie, Cassandre, and the rest, idols one after another of a somewhat artificial and for the most part unrequited love, from the Angevine maiden—La petite pucelle Angevine—who had vexed his young soul by her inability to yield him more than a faint Platonic affection, down to Helen, to whom he had been content to propose no other, gazed, more impassibly ...
— Gaston de Latour: an unfinished romance • Walter Horatio Pater
... on this passage, and given us a very humorous account of "les Habitans de l'Enfer," in his wicked "Pucelle." ...
— Trips to the Moon • Lucian
... secret, or for another reason incident to 'the young and gay,' as one of the counsel employed euphemistically put the case. The medical evidence did not confirm these suggestions. Details are needless, but these theories were certainly improbable. The character of La Pucelle was not ...
— Historical Mysteries • Andrew Lang |
