Watchmaker's unit of thickness

Usage examples of ligne.

More dramatically, an enormous, and suddenly horrified crowd on the plaine des Bro-teaux beside the Rhone near Lyon saw the soon-to-be-doomed Pilatre de Rozier, Montgolfier and six passengers, including the son of the Prince de Ligne, descend vertically amidst smoke and flames.

Also poor Prince Ernest de Ligne, whose son, Badouin, was killed in one of the armoured motors several days ago.

The three motors, de Ligne in the first, started down and were attacked by about forty Germans under command of a major.

Tragicomedie en trois actes, composed a Dux dans le mois de Juin de l'Annee, 1791,' which recurs again under the form of the 'Polemoscope: La Lorgnette menteuse ou la Calomnie demasquge,' acted before the Princess de Ligne, at her chateau at Teplitz, 1791.

Casanova died in 1798, but nothing was heard of the Memoirs (which the Prince de Ligne, in his own Memoirs, tells us that Casanova had read to him, and in which he found 'du dyamatique, de la rapidite, du comique, de la philosophie, des choses neuves, sublimes, inimitables meme') until the year 1820, when a certain Carlo Angiolini brought to the publishing house of Brockhaus, in Leipzig, a manuscript entitled Histoire de ma vie jusqu a l'an 1797, in the handwriting of Casanova.

The Prince de Ligne draws the following portrait of him under the name of Aventuros: "He would be a handsome man if he were not ugly.

On the 20th September 1789, he wrote to the Princess Clari, sister of the Prince de Ligne: "I am struck by a woman at first sight, she completely ravishes me, and I am perhaps lost, for she may be a Charpillon.

On the occasion of Teresa Casanova's visit to Vienna in 1792, Princess Clari, oldest sister of the Prince de Ligne, wrote of her: "She is charming in every way, pretty as love, always amiable.

It was fruitless, he realized, but it seemed Ligne had decided to play out this cat-and-mouse game to the bitter end.