What is "corbeil"

Usage examples of "corbeil".

Gilles of Corbeil, who was a graduate of Salerno and afterward became the physician-in-ordinary to Philip Augustus, King of France, thought that he could not say too much for the training in medicine that was given at this first of the medical schools.

On the other side of Corbeil they turned off into a low-lying narrow road that ran beside the river.

Before that, it was only frequented by bargees and the working-class people of Corbeil, who used to dance there on Sundays.

It was probably then, and in her company, that the two devout women from Lower Brittany, Pierronne and her younger sister in the spirit, were taken at Corbeil by the English.

Jeanne on her departure from Sully and had been taken at Corbeil, Pierronne of Lower Brittany and her companion, had been confined in ecclesiastical prisons at Paris since the spring.

Ministry had refused to issue a permit there had been no further suggestion of maternity, and Rosalie had withdrawn from the public eye to her villa near Corbeil, whence she wrote and sent parcels to the prisoner at frequent intervals.

Amis this evening, as there was yesterday, we shall have a chance to arrest all three men and to get our hands on Fernand at Corbeil at the same time.

Lussac glancing at the clock now and then, no doubt to make sure he would not be late for his call to Corbeil at nine-thirty.

He drew off the wine, drove the car to Corbeil to fetch the meat, and caulked the seams of a leaky boat.

To Corbeil it was something to be won, something he would have that no one else could get.

Moving forward he seized the towns of Lagny on the Maine, and Corbeil on the Seine, thus entirely cutting off the food supply of Paris.

In order to take the Messieurs de Guise by surprise he avoided Paris, and came direct from Ecouen to Corbeil, and from Corbeil to Pithiviers by the valley of the Essonne.

Corbeil moved in that stiff, upright military-academy way, as though he were holding a golf ball in his crotch as he walked.

Corbeil had actually made the whole thing seem easy—which was, after all, a good bit of what Helmsmanship was all about.

In the first place he enjoyed a handsome salary to which hung, like supernumerary bunches of grapes to his vine, the revenues of the civil and criminal registries of the provostships, and also the civil and criminal revenues of the Court of the Châtelet, to say nothing of the tolls collected at the bridge of Mante and Corbeil, and other minor perquisites.