"Faubourg Saint-Germain"

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French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848
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Excerpt - on Page 29: " ... During the Bourbon Restoration, the aristocrats of Faubourg Saint-Germain liked to describe le monde as consisting of those received at court, but this appraisal reflected a desire to restrict ... "

Les mondains de La comedie humaine: Etude historique et psychologique (French Edition)
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Excerpt - on Page 53: " ... Le soleil que Balzac portait dans son coeur parmi la grisaille du Faubourg Saint-Germain, c'était cette énergie, que Stendhal dit si antipathique aux gens du monde, qui la jugent vulgaire (16). Peut-être, sous l'influence ... "

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain (Vintage)
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Excerpt - on Page 23: " ... old friend of my father said to us, speaking of the Duchess: "She has the highest posi- tion in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; hers is the leading house in the Faubourg Saint-Germain. ... "

The Guermantes Way
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
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Excerpt - on Page 4: " ... Saint-Loup, but fantasy assumes a new lease on life when, learning that the Duchesse de Guermantes reigns supreme over the Faubourg Saint-Germain, he begins to invest her name with further images of a glamorous and inaccessible world. ... "

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