Find the word definition

Usage examples of "baronne".

I see Baronne Dufond making her way over here to complain about something and I am about to leave.

As he was entering the house, he passed by Baronne Dufond in the doorway, his sights drifting idly to the ship sailing by his nose.

Society, seeing me in the trappings of a married woman, pronounces the Baronne de Macumer much prettier than Louise de Chaulieu: a happy love is a most becoming cosmetic.

Gaston was now a rich man through his marriage with the Baronne de Macumer.

When she learned that the baron was about to bring home a mistress, she had been moved to great emotion, believing that she must yield the sceptre of the household and abdicate in favor of the Baronne du Guenic, whose subject she was now compelled to be.

Just as Clara Gazul is the female pseudonym of a distinguished male writer, George Sand the masculine pseudonym of a woman of genius, so Camille Maupin was the mask behind which was long hidden a charming young woman, very well-born, a Breton, named Felicite des Touches, the person who was now causing such lively anxiety to the Baronne du Guenic and the excellent rector of Guerande.

Mademoiselle des Touches, the Baronne du Guenic and Calyste started for Paris, leaving the household in charge of old Zephirine.

In October, 1839, the young Baronne du Guenic had a son, and committed the mistake of nursing it herself, on the theory of most women in such cases.

She rang for the footman and in the transport of her fever she found strength to write the following letter, for she was mastered by one mad desire--to have certainty:-- To Madame la Baronne du Guenic: Dear Mamma,--When you come to Paris, as you allow us to hope you will, I shall thank you in person for the beautiful present by which you and my aunt Zephirine and Calyste wish to reward me for doing my duty.

To Madame la Baronne du Guenic: My dear Daughter,--Your aunt Zephirine and I are lost in conjectures about the dressing-table of which you tell us in your letter.

The letters in which Baronne Dudevant tells, day by day, of her home life are too enthusiastic for the letters of an unhappy wife.

The Pyrenees served, too, for Baronne Dudevant as the setting for an episode which was unique in her sentimental life.

This Boucoiran needed to be taken to task constantly, and Baronne Dudevant did not spare him.

A Christian wife would have submitted to it and accepted it, but the Christianity of Baronne Dudevant was nothing but religiosity.

III A FEMINIST OF 1832 THE FIRST NOVELS AND THE QUESTION OF MARRIAGE When Baronne Dudevant arrived in Paris, in 1831, her intention was to earn her living with her pen.