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Alençon

[ a-lahn-sawn; English uh-len-suhn, -son ]

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Orne, in NW France: lace manufacture.


Alençon

/ alɑ̃sɔ̃ /

noun

  1. a town in NW France: early lace-manufacturing centre. Pop: 28 935 (1999)


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Here he remained in office no longer than absolutely necessary, retreating to his dear Alencon home.

In 1824, then a judge at Alencon, he helped render an alibi decision in favor of Victurnien d'Esgrignon, who really was guilty.

His aunt took him back quickly to Alencon, and by a great effort he was rescued from legal proceedings.

My life was like a troubled sleep; I woke and thought myself a girl; I was in Alencon, where all my memories were pure and chaste.

Born of an old Alencon family, du Bousquier was a cross between the bourgeois and the country squire.

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