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Douay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Abel Douay (1809–1870), French general
  • Félix Douay (1816–1879), French general and brother of Abel Douay

Usage examples of "douay".

The 7th Corps, commanded by General Douay, only possessed two divisions--Dumont's division and Gilbert's division--and formed the other battle front, covering the army of Givonne to Floing on the side of Illy.

At Douay,[56] with guns in hand, they force the directory of the department to order the closing of all the oratories and chapels in hospitals and convents.

His son was under Douay, and he was taken, and then in escaping from Germany he met his death.

Which Douay translates: Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns: and ostriches shall dwell therein, and it shall be no more inherited for ever, neither shall it be built up from generation to generation.

They exist today primarily as a part of the Douay Rheims Version of The Bible, which is widely used by Catholics.

The whole wall -- faded green-stripe wallpaper, her grandmother's bureau with the chipped green paint and newel-post mirror and hand-tatted dresser scarf, Douay Bible on the scarf beside the cut-glass bowl holding hairpins and rubber bands -- was off limits, until this was over.