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Eugene

1

[ yoo-jeen yoo-jeen ]

noun

  1. a city in W Oregon.
  2. a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “wellborn.”


Eugène

2

[ œ-zhen ]

noun

  1. Prince François Eugène de Savoie-Carignan, 1663–1736, Austrian general, born in France.

Eugène

/ øʒɛn /

noun

  1. Eugène, Prince16631736MAustrianFrenchMILITARY: general Prince, title of François Eugène de Savoie-Carignan. 1663–1736, Austrian general, born in France: with Marlborough defeated the French at Blenheim (1704), Oudenaarde (1708), and Malplaquet (1709)


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Balzac writes, “Like all great minds, Eugène wished to owe his success to nothing but his own merit.”

Here we meet a prototypical Balzac character: the gifted, flawed, striving provincial Eugène de Rastignac.

Several pictures in the show by Eugène Atget draw attention to the disappearance of old Paris.

After her marriage to Eugène Manet she came under the influence of his famous brother, Édouard.

I had summoned Eugène Falloon to my assistance, and he was permitted to visit me quite early, soon after the prison had opened.

"But they were not so always, Eugène," said he of the Rubens make-up, with an air of reluctant candor.

At sixty he defeated Eugène, and by his successes enabled France to conclude honorably a most disastrous war.

The said Eugène de Fontane is brought hither to suffer death, being condemned thereto by the criminal court of this town.

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