What is "duchesse"

Usage examples of "duchesse".

The Duchesse de Luynes allowed the special wheelbarrow she had had made in acajou to be wheeled by the flower girls who were her teammates.

Sometimes, lying wide-eyed in the dark, she pictured herself at such a moment, gorgeously gowned, and delightfully disdainful of the bejeweled, becrowned, stately kings and queens and little princelings, dukes and duchesses and earls and countesses, all hanging on the exquisite notes she drew from her strings.

I told him that by means of your acquaintance with the Duchesse de Grammont you could do anything with the minister.

Maulincourts, Maximes de Trailles, de Marsays, Ronquerolles, AjudaPintos, and Vandenesses who shone there in all the glory of coxcombry among the best-dressed women of fashion in Paris--Lady Brandon, the Duchesse de Langeais, the Comtesse de Kergarouet, Mme.

The Duchesse de Fontanges, doubtless, believed herself Queen, because she had the public homage and the King.

The first blow of the hammer was struck, by some inconceivable fortuity, at the moment when the Duchesse de Fontanges expired.

The King, consoled as he was for the death of the Duchesse de Fontanges, did not, on that account, return to that sweet and agreeable intimacy which had united us for the space of eleven or twelve years.

The King wept bitterly at first, as we had seen him weep for Marie de Mancini, Louise de la Valliere, Henrietta of England, and the Duchesse de Fontanges,--dead of his excesses.

But the Duchesse de Fontanges gave offence neither to the Archbishop of Paris nor to the Jesuits.

The whole rest of the night in that white and glass dinner party in the sky, Tyler kept clearing plates of cold artichokes, then cold veal with cold Pommes Duchesse, then cold Choufleur a la Polonaise from in front of the hostess, and Tyler kept filling her wine glass about a dozen times.

The hoods were thrown back: one of the women was Madame Vanel, the other was the Duchesse de Chevreuse.

HISTOIRE DE SAINT ADJUTOR Descendant des compagnons de Rollon, fils du duc Jean et de la duchesse Rosamonde de Blaru, if fut eleve par saint Bernard, abbe de Tiron, dans les pratiques les plus exactes de la religion chretienne.

The Duchesse de Navailles, my protectress, was a near relative of hers, and M.

The highest names in France - the Princesse de Tingry, the Duchesse de Vitry, the Duchesse de Lusignan, the Duchesse de Bouillon, the Comtesse de Soissons, the Duc de Luxembourg, the Marguis de Cessac - scores of the older aristocracy, were involved, whilst literally hundreds of venal apothecaries, druggists, pseudo-alchemists, astrologers, quacks, warlocks, magicians, charlatans, who revolved round the ominous and terrible figure of Catherine La Voisin, professional seeress, fortune-teller, herbalist, beauty-specialist, were caught in the meshes of law.

Duc de Bercy, and the Comtesse Chantavoine, now known to the world as the Duchesse de Bercy.