Duras

/ dyra /

noun

DurasMarguerite19141996FFrenchVietnameseWRITING: novelist Marguerite , real name Marguerite Donnadieu . 1914–96, French novelist born in Giadinh, Indochina (now in Vietnam). Her works include The Sea Wall (1950), Practicalities (1990), Écrire (1993), and the script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1960)

Charles of Duras had her taken to Muro, in the Basilicata, and had her put to death seven or eight months afterward.

M. de Turenne and Mademoiselle de Duras were heretics: you did right there.

It would be as uncharitable to doubt the conviction of Mademoiselle de Duras as that of M. le Maréchal.

On Wednesday last the Duras steamer brought in 400 boxes of fish, which had been caught in one day.

The king was near me with his hat in his hand; the duc de Duras gave me his arm.

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