The position of Maisons, where he lived, close to Marly, afforded him many opportunities of drawing there the principal people of the Court.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 09 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de
No alternative, up drove the post-coach, in came the long-arm driver, F. Tarbal, who captured me and hurled me out of door and into the coach, while daughter clung to me in tears.
— from Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States by Moses Swan
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