"Colombier" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... et de Colombier,' Paris, 1824. During forty-five years the sole occupation of M. Corbie was the care of the pigeons belonging to ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin
... reach the boulevard Gambetta, north of the streams of Aubette (along which runs the road to Nid de Chiens, the Norman dukes' sporting kennel) and south of that branch of Robec which passes by the Tour du Colombier. Though that part of Rouen's fortifications has disappeared, you may still see at the south-east angle of the old walls, a remnant of that Couvent des Celestins founded by the Duke of Bedford during the English occupation. A little further northwards you pass the end of the Rue ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook |
