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Grasse

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Grasse  (grs, gräs)
A town of southeast France west of Nice. Probably founded in Roman times, it was an independent republic in the 12th century. The city has long been noted for its perfume industry. Population: 48,200.
Grasse, Comte François Joseph Paul de. Marquis de Grasse-Tilly. 1722?-1788.
French naval officer who during the American Revolution commanded the French fleet in Chesapeake Bay, thereby preventing British naval forces from aiding Cornwallis at Yorktown (1781).


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Archer and her son and daughter, like every one else in New York, knew who these privileged beings were: the Dagonets of Washington Square, who came of an old English county family allied with the Pitts and Foxes; the Lannings, who had intermarried with the descendants of Count de Grasse, and the van der Luydens, direct descendants of the first Dutch governor of Manhattan, and related by pre-revolutionary marriages to several members of the French and British aristocracy.
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Now when we fell in with the mounsheers, under De Grasse, d’ye see, we hid aboard of us a doctor—”
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
In spite of the terror that made his body shake, George Willard was amused at the sight of the small spry figure holding the grasses and half running along the platform.
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