10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MARIAGES DE CONVENANCE»
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Such a triumph as that — why I wouldn't credit any woman who pretended she
wasn't dazzled by it I" " I thought you did not approve of mariages de convenance
?" Lady Marabout played a tattoo — slightly perplexed tattoo — with her spoon in
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Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith,
1862
"I thought you did not approve of mariages de convenance ?" Lady Marabout
played a tattoo — slightly perplexed tattoo — with her spoon in her Sevres saucer
. " No more I do, my dear — that is, under some circumstances ; it is impossible to
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RECOLLECTIONS OF SEVENTY YEARS
MARIAGES DE CONVENANCE. IN Paris, where every father thinks he has an
undoubted right to dispose of his children in marriage, according to his own ideas
of expediency, I heard the most vehement denunciation of the practice, . in a ...
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World Dictionary of Foreign Expressions: A Resource for ...
The alliance between the radicals and conservatives, like most mariages de
convenance, has collapsed like a house of cards. Cf. mariage d'inclination.
mariage d'inclination n., pl. mariages d'inclination [Fr. mariage marriage (1); d' of (
2); ...
Gabriel Adeleye, Kofi Acquah-Dadzie, Thomas J. Sienkewicz,
1999
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Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- ...
French marriages, you know, according to l'ancein régime, in which you were
brought up, were never supposed to be affairs of the heart, but mere alliances of
interest, pride, or convenience.” '. ' “ Yes—des mariages de convenance,” said ...
Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth,
1826
So Glothilde was ' polished off,' and M. de Beaufort made happy, -and so pretty
nearly are all French mariages de convenance—tl1at is, nine out of every ten in
the register books-—-made up and carried out. From these, and other like foreign
...
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Tales and miscellaneous piecces
Yes — des mariages de convenance," said Emilie. " We have suffered terribly by
the revolution ; but I owe to it one blessing, which, putting what mamma has felt
out of the question, I should say has overbalanced all our losses : I have escaped
...
Maria [collections] Edgeworth,
1825
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Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France
This was also the position of Cerfvol, who conceded the necessity to match rank
and wealth through “mariages de convenance” [marriages of convenience] but
also appealed to parents' common sense with the wish to see affinities of “esprit,
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Dr Nadine Berenguier,
2013
Yes—des mariages de convenance,” said Emilie. “ We have suffered terribly by
the revolution; but I owe to it one blessing, which, 'putting what' mamma has felt
out of the question, I should 'say has overbalanced all our losses: I have ...
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Miscellanies: The Paris sketch book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. ...
If mariages de convenance take place here (as they will wherever avarice, and
poverty, and desire, and yearning after riches are to be found), at least, thank
God, such unions are not arranged upon a regular organized system : there is a ...
William Makepeace Thackeray,
1871