What is "maillard"

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Suzanne Maillard, her gray hair upswept from a face that had never been beautiful but which was alive with something rarer than mere beauty: she possessed, at the brink of fifty, a charm and smartness that many women half her age might have envied, and she knew more about cosmic rays than any other person living.

About half an hour after Ashton-Kirk had left the Vale mansion, a Maillard car drew up before the door.

Italian sped away in the same direction as the Maillard, his battered soft hat set jauntily upon the back of his head, his gay-colored neckkerchief streaming in the wind.

Once upon the highway, which was hard, level and practically deserted, the Maillard increased its speed.

The Maillard was less than a quarter of a mile away when Miss Vale caught the rapid series of explosions once more.

At last the sounds of the Maillard ceased and the pall of dust thinned and dissolved itself in the air.

Herault, whose aristocratic birth and intellectual manner rendered him suspect, with lunatics and thugs on the left like Maillard and Cloots, whom he found simply disgusting.

When the General gave the signal Maillard advanced toward the door and thrust his key into one of the locks, turning it forward and backward a number of times.

Some of the men inscribed on the list of this commission refused: Leon Faucher Goulard, Mortemart, Frederic Granier, Marchand, Maillard Paravay, Beugnot.

The moment that the mob reached the town, they forced their way into the Assembly Hall, where Maillard, as their spokesman, after terrifying the members with ferocious threats against the whole body of the Nobles, demanded that the Assembly should send a deputation to the king to represent to him the distress of the people, and that a party of the women should accompany it.

One party of the rioters, with Maillard and another ruffian named Jourdan, the chief of the Coupe-tetes, at their head, had started two hours before, bearing aloft in triumph the heads of the mangled Body-guards, and combining such hideous mockery with their barbarity that they halted at Sevres to compel a barber to dress the hair on the lifeless skulls.

Jean-Jacques Maillard did not recognize Brett as a former customer, but he could see by his garb that he was a sea faring man and a foreigner.

But there was no relief, only tumult, until Maillard, a patriot agitator, conspicuous as one of the captors of the Bastille and since, harangued them.

A motley procession poured out from Paris, following Maillard into the country roads and villages on the way to Versailles.

At the center of the state dining room, Maillard had created a fountain, supported by water nymphs of nougat and surrounded by marzipan beehives filled with marzipan bees, producing charlotte russe.