"Suisse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... purchased; By the Government and is in the Museum at Neuchatel. In 1903 the city of Geneva commissioned her to paint a portrait of Philippe Plantamour, which is in the Museum Mon-Repos, at Geneva. Member of the Societe des Beaux-Arts of Lausanne, Societe des Femmes peintres et sculpteurs de la Suisse romande, Societe de l'exposition permanente des Beaux-Arts, Geneva. Born at Payerne, Canton de Vaud. Studied at Geneva under M. Hebert and Barthelmy Menn, in ...
— Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. • Clara Erskine Clement
... much obliged to you for De la Rive's brochure [Footnote: Le Droit de la Suisse, by William de la Rive, son of the celebrated physicist, Auguste] which is written with great force and spirit; he makes out an excellent European case for the slice of Savoy he claims for Switzerland, and he manages ...
— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton
... long form: Swiss Confederation conventional short form: Switzerland local long form: Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft (German), Confederation Suisse (French), Confederazione Svizzera (Italian) local short form: Schweiz (German), Suisse (French), ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... etait ordinairement chez elle le vendredi. Un jour elle avait donne l'ordre a son suisse de dire qu'elle n'y etait pas. Le soir, dans le nombre de ceux qui s'etaient presentes, le suisse lui nomme Mme V..., sa soeur. "Eh! dit-elle, ne vous ai-je pas deja dit que, quelque ordre que je vous donne,[1] j'y suis toujours pour elle?" Le lendemain Mme M... sort, Mme V... revient: "Ma ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... the book-keeper, one cannot but love it. I love it because, in my early days of scant feeding, it was the one spot in London where I could gorge to repletion for a shilling. There was a little place in Wardour Street, the Franco-Suisse—it is still there—whose shilling table d'hote was a marvel: And I always had my bob's worth, I can assure you; for those were the days when one went hungry all day in order to buy concert tickets. Indeed, ...
— Nights in London • Thomas Burke |
