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Vanne is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
The Vanne is a river in France, right tributary of the Yonne. It is 59 km long, and its drainage basin area is 990 km. It rises in the Aube department, in the village Fontvannes, west of Troyes. It flows into the river Yonne in Sens.
The Vanne flows through the following departments and towns:
- Aube: Estissac
- Yonne: Villeneuve-l'Archevêque, Malay-le-Grand, Sens
Usage examples of "vanne".
I learned you had returned from Vannes, and I sent to one of our friends, M.
But the friendly pressure having been performed not too painfully for him, the bishop of Vannes passed over to Moliere.
Porthos, surprised at seeing the proud bishop of Vannes fraternizing with a journeyman tailor.
At this juncture, the bishop of Vannes appeared, with a roll of plans and parchments under his arm.
Baisemeaux, seated at table, was rubbing his hands and looking at the bishop of Vannes, who, booted like a cavalier, dressed in gray and sword at side, kept talking of his hunger and testifying the liveliest impatience.
Baisemeaux de Montlezun was not accustomed to the unbending movements of his greatness, my lord of Vannes, and this evening, Aramis becoming quite sprightly, volunteered confidence on confidence.
It was an anxious time for the bishop of Vannes, who had never before been so perplexed.
This time Colbert seemed to walk in concert with the bishop of Vannes, and had he received for every annoyance which he inflicted on the king a word of direction from Aramis, he could not have done better.
I say, that I should have been mad enough to rouse the whole house and allow myself to be seen in the corridor of the bishop of Vannes, in order that M.
Fouquet could not but understand to what a pitch of exaltation the calm, impenetrable bishop of Vannes had wrought himself.
At length, after a rapid course, frequently interrupted by prudent stoppages, they reached the deep grottos, into which the foreseeing bishop of Vannes had taken care to have rolled upon cylinders a good bark capable of keeping the sea at this fine season.
Aramis, the event, subject to the chances of things over which uncertainty presides, did not fall out exactly as the bishop of Vannes had foreseen.
But when arrived there, instead of throwing off his sword and cloak, he took his pistols, put his money into a large leather purse, sent for his horses from the castle stables, and gave orders for reaching Vannes during the night.
Against the old walls of Vannes, hung the oldest and the strangest tapestries of France.
I will tell you that the bishopric of Vannes is worth about twenty thousand livres a year, neither more nor less.