abbé
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Morse got most of this story from a book written by a Scottish academic named John Robison, who in turn took many of his ideas from the abbé de Barruel, a French priest.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2022
He even took minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church in 1865, becoming an abbé but appropriately stopping short of the vow of chastity.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2011
This smoothness has perhaps a slight tinge of the priestly—for, as Renan first studied for the priesthood, so Dupont-Sommer was once an abbé.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 1955
I went to her home, I found the abbé, I applauded his verses as all Paris has since done, but I did not see the brother of the mistress of the house....
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.
She asked if they had not met a fat abbé, an enormous bailiff, and a young booby, galloping as fast as they could to Paris.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
The young abbés and priests were very good fellows, earnest believers, but so simple that conversations with them were only interesting because of their ignorance and lack of understanding.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
The abbés and men of learning are of easy access enough, but few English that travel have knowledge enough to take any great pleasure in that company.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur
In 1883, in Savoy, the oil of which I have spoken was prepared in a group of defrocked abbés.
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
The remarkable contrast between the high wages of the Athenian sophists and the low wages of modern abbés, Adam Smith accounts for principally by the many scholarships of modern times.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
We cannot conclude this article better than by honorably mentioning two classes of men whom we have seen in all their glory, and whom the Revolution has eclipsed--the chevaliers and the abbés.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
