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Beauvais

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Beauvais (French) [bovɛ]
n
(Placename) a market town in N France, 64 km (40 miles) northwest of Paris. Pop.: 56 280 (1990)
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In the bedroom in which this passage ended, Bernouin encountered Madame de Beauvais, like himself intrusted with the secret of these subterranean love affairs; and Madame de Beauvais undertook to prepare Anne of Austria, who was in her oratory with the young king, Louis XIV.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
At Beauvais they stopped two hours, as well to breathe their horses a little as to wait for Porthos.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
On the other hand, he was assiduous at the great and the small schools of the Rue Saint Jean de Beauvais.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
 
 
 
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