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Vendome

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Ven·dôme  (vä-dm), Duc de Title of Louis Joseph de Bourbon. 1654-1712.
French general who commanded Spanish troops in northern Italy (1710) during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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The donjon of Vincennes was considered very unhealthy and Madame de Rambouillet had said that the room in which the Marechal Ornano and the Grand Prior de Vendome had died was worth its weight in arsenic -- a bon mot which had great success.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
There is Napoleon; who, upon the top of the column of Vendome, stands with arms folded, some one hundred and fifty feet in the air; careless, now, who rules the decks below; whether Louis Philippe, Louis Blanc, or Louis the Devil.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
My itinerary will depend upon your royal highness's determination, and instead of passing through Blois, we shall come through Vendome and Romorantin.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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