"Perron" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brilliant embassy; D'Ossat quietly resumed negotiations, and alone conducted them from the end of 1594 to the spring of 1595; and when a new envoy was chosen to bring them to a conclusion, it was not a great lord, but a learned ecclesiastic, Abbot James du Perron, whose ability and devotion Henry IV. had already, at the time of his conversion, experienced, and whom he had lately appointed Bishop of Evreux. Even when Du Perron had been fixed upon to go to Rome and ask for the absolution which Clement VIII. had seven or eight months before refused, he was ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... seven o'clock in the morning. In Paris the day has at that early hour not yet begun, and but very few persons, mostly travelling foreigners and labourers, are seen on the streets. Since it has become the fashion to use the moving train for suicidal purposes, the perron is locked, and only those travellers admitted whose luggage is undergoing examination by the ...
— Dr. Dumany's Wife • Mr Jkai
... d'enceinte etant presque partout detruit, Cette porte, ancien seuil des marquis patriarches Qu'au-dessus de la cour exhaussent quelques marches, Domine l'horizon, et toute la foret Autour de son perron comme un gouffre apparait. L'epaisseur du vieux roc de Corbus est propice A cacher plus d'un sourd et sanglant precipice; Tout le burg, et la salle elle-meme, dit-on, Sont batis sur des puits faits ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... the carriage and stepped on the perron, five graceful girls carefully selected by a chum of the Captain, to whom Pflicht had taken a card ...
— Mademoiselle Fifi • Guy de Maupassant |
