"Normandie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... box for another chocolate cream, gave an imperceptible start. She, too, was staying at the Normandie. She presumed that her admirer was a recent arrival, for she had seen nothing of him ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... singular - region); Alsace, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie (Lower Normandy), Bourgogne, Bretagne (Brittany), Centre, Champagne-Ardenne, Corse (Corsica), Franche-Comte, Guadeloupe, Guyane (French Guiana), Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy), Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... once stood the stump of a large tree on which, as the story goes, the constable of France used to dine—they improvised a race-course which has proved the prolific mother of the tracks to be found to-day all over the country. In this first trial M. de Normandie was the winner. The fate of Chantilly was decided. Since the suicide—or the assassination—of the last of the Condes the castle had been abandoned, the duc d'Aumale, its inheritor, being then a minor. The little ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various
... pocket only what she absolutely needed. He spoke at length about moderate priced restaurants, and mentioned two or three patronized by women, and told them that they might mention his name at the Hotel Normandie. ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant |
