marseillese

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Zola fortunately had other work in hand, having arranged with the director of a Marseillese newspaper, "Le Messager de Provence," to supply him with a serial story, based (so Zola wrote to Valabrègue), on certain criminal trials, respecting which he had received such an infinity of documents that he hardly knew how to reduce so much chaos to order and invest it with life."
"The Marseillese had, in consequence, at first a severe war upon their hands; [...]"
"The Marseillese were three thousand six hundred men; they had a heavier and more numerous artillery, and yet they have been obliged to recross the Durance."
"The Marseillese were ill supported by this class of men, many of whom thought it more knightly to serve under the banner of the foreigner than to make common cause with the friends of national independence."
"[...] a Marseillese, a man of Nismes, a military man, and a manufacturer of Montpellier."
"In the evening the public were invited to illuminate the streets which was done partially, and a party with banners flying and singing the Marseillese paraded the Cassero [...]"

From Marseille + -ese. Doublet of Marseillais and Marseillaise.

the Marseillese (canonical)

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