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La Chaise

[ la shez ]

noun

  1. Père Fran·çois d'Aix de [per frah, n, -, swa, deks d, uh], 1624–1709, French Roman Catholic priest: confessor to Louis XIV.


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The first interment in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise; it was laid out and prepared by order of Bonaparte.

I have had the coffin that we laid in Père la Chaise exhumed and opened.

Father La Chaise was an elegant and most polished man of the world, and travelled in a coach with six horses.

The Cemetery of Père la Chaise was a later creation, having been consecrated in 1804.

Oh, he boasts of having his creatures in every household, but he has a de la Chaise to deal with in me.

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